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  Dampening the vulnerability to price shocks: a role for aid

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper examines the effects of price shocks on developing countries, and discusses what kind of global measures may be implemented to avoid negative outcomes.
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  Can the World Bank and IMF cancel 100% of poor country debts?

  Jubilee Research, 2003

  This report employs financial analysis to argue that both the IMF and the World Bank have enough resources to cancel all the HIPC debt, and argues that they could finance this debt cancellation without jeopardising their normal operations.
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  Real Progress Report on HIPC

  Jubilee Research, 2003

  This New Economics Foundation report is intended to shadow the official World Bank and IMF annual HIPC Status of Implementation Report, and states that it examines questions that the official HIPC reports do not, including:how much debt has actually been cancelled?are creditors really sharing the burden of debt relief under the HIPC initiative?is HIPC debt relief enough to a
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  Mali: enhanced initiative for heavily indebted poor countries--completion point document

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  Mali has successfully achieved the completion point under the IMF’s enhanced HIPC Initiative framework. This include: macroeconomic stability, structural reforms and social sector programmes.
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  Making aid smart: institutional incentives facing donor organizations and their implications for aid effectiveness

  US Agency for International Development, 2002

  Starting from the premise that allocated aid is not enough and it does not appear to be effective, this paper identifies three ways in which aid can be made smarter:by allocating it in countries with sound policies and institutionsby enabling aid to promote reform not through old-style conditionality, but through strengthening the capacity of the society to reform itselfby using it
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  Aid, economic reform and public sector fiscal behaviour in developing countries

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The macroeconomic impact of foreign development aid is a controversial issue.
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  Debt sustainability, Brazil, and the IMF

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003

  There has been a high concentration of financial crises in Latin America over the past two years. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have passed through serious debt problems.This paper analyses issues of debt sustainability in emerging economies.
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  The impact of aid and external debt on growth and investment

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  Additionality is an important issue of the HIPC Initiative.
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  Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2006

  This revised paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth.
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  International financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000

  International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000

  Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,

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