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  Failing women, sustaining poverty: gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

  Christian Aid, 2003

  More than half the poor citizens of heavily indebted developing countries are women.
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  Economic development in Africa: from adjustment to poverty reduction: what is new?

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002

  This year’s "Economic development in Africa" report reviews the policy content of the poverty reduction programmes in Africa.
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  Malaria and poverty: opportunities to address malaria through debt relief and poverty reduction strategies

  Malaria Consortium, 2001

  This background paper, produced by the Malaria Consortium, investigates how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) can support country plans to Roll Back Malaria (RBM). It makes particular reference to case studies in three countries at different stages in the preparation of PRSPs: Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  The external debt burden and government allocation for health expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This paper provides evidence on the impact of potentially binding debt servicing on health expenditures.The paper finds that debt service exerts a negative effect on health expenditure. Furthermore, debt service is observed to be the most potent explanatory variable of health expenditure among the non-time variables in the model.
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  Debt relief and health care in Kenya

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,
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  Public spending and poverty in Mozambique

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Paper assesses the extent to which public expenditure on social sectors constitute a targeted, efficient and powerful instrument for poverty reduction and human development.
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  Making debt relief work: a test of political will

  Oxfam, 1998

  Two years ago the adoption by the Governing Boards of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative appeared to signal the beginning of the end of the debt crisis in the world's poorest countries.
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  AIDS, poverty reduction and debt relief: a toolkit for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS programmes into development instruments

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001

  Argues that the potential benefits of giving HIV/AIDS a prominent place in PRSPs and HIPC agreements are substantial. They include greater political attention to and increased domestic funding for the national HIV/AIDS programme,as well as a focus on achieving results in implementing a national HIV/AIDS programme.
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  Protecting the Poor During Adjustment (World Bank)

  HNPFLASH, 1999
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  Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.

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