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  Calm after the Storms: Income Distribution in Chile, 1987–94

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  With the profound political and economic changes of the 1970s and 1980s behind it, and regardless of its trade patterns, Chile's income distribution is, for the moment, calm. Education may be the most important variable affecting the structure of, and changes in, inequality in Chile.
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  Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that undermines its potential impact. Spurring growth in the developing world is one stated objective of foreign aid.
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  Development in the Time of Globalization

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Paper examines grounds on which a "second opinion" to the Washington Consensus may be constructed using data for a sample of 123 rich and poor nations for the period from 1960 to 1995. The historical record makes abundantly clear that international inequality has increased not only over the long haul of the past two centuries but also in recent decades.
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  Social Development Policies, Results and Learning: a Multi-agency Review

  Department for International Development, UK, 1997

  Review of the monitoring and evaluation practices of agencies involved in social development work (particularly those aimed at the reduction of poverty and the enhancement of the capacity of secondary stakeholders (donor agencies, governmental agencies, NGOs, and private businesses) to reduce poverty.Includes both an issue based synthethis (relating back to DFID objectives) and an agency-by-age
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  East Asian ‘recovery’ leaves the poor sinking

  Oxfam, 1998

  Short briefing summarizes the scale of the crisis, considers its impact on the poor and outlines the framework for a reform agenda.The economic crisis in East Asia shows no sign of abating. Far from resolving the region’s problems, IMF ‘rescue’ measures have exacerbated their severity, contributing to an economic collapse which parallels in scale the Great Depression of 1929.
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  Directory of Non-Governmental Organisations Active in Sustainable Development, Part I: Europe

  NGO directories, 1996

  Directory available on CDROM. Comprehensive source of information on 3 900 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 26 countries in Europe active in the field of sustainable development. It provides detailed NGO profiles and crossreferenced indexes of their activities in developing regions and in Europe.
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  Include Me Out? The New Politics of Place and Poverty [in London]

  Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998

  London is being successfully regenerated at present, yet poverty and social exclusion are increasing. The paradox is explained in part by the openness of the London economy and the lack of basic skills of a substantial minority of the population.
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  Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action

  Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 1998

  Makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two 'parallel universes' of literature.
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  Aid allocation and poverty reduction

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998

  Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations.Paperuses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relationship between aid, policies and growthadds mapping from growth to poverty reduction which reflects the level and distribution of incomecompares the effect of using the hea
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  Evaluation of Stakeholder Impacts in Cost-Benefit Analysis

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Expands the scope of the analyses of both public and private investment projects beyond the traditional criteria of the financial and economic net present value of an investment.

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