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Searching with a thematic focus on Structural adjustment policies, Agriculture and food, Aid and debt, Governance, International cooperation for development

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    Economic Reforms And Health Conditions Of The Urban Poor In Tanzania

    African Studies Quarterly, 1997
    This paper describes the impact of Economic Reforms on the health conditions of the urban poor in Tanzania. The main argument advanced is that Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have exacerbated the declining condition of the urban areas rather than improved them.
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    Aid effectiveness: a survey of the recent rmpirical literature

    Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment, IMF, 1998
    The preponderance of evidence from the empirical literature on aid effectiveness suggests that development aid has not had a significant impact on growth in recipient countries. However there is some evidence that aid has had positive effects when the policy environment has been conducive to growth.
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    Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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    The Implications of Foreign Aid Fungibility for Development Assistance

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    To address the fungibility of foreign aid funds, a proposed new lending instrument—a public expenditure reform loan—would tie an institution's lending strategy to the recipient country's achieving mutually agreed-upon development goals.A foreign aid or foreign lending policy that focuses exclusively on project financing may have unintended consequences, report Devarajan and Swaroop.
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    Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

    World Bank, 2001
    This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.