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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    Reviewing the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus: draft Doha document

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008
    The international community will be meeting in Doha in December to review the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (2002). This landmark agreement sought to establish a framework and conditions to ensure that developing countries’ economies were appropriately supported – specifically, in order that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could be realised.
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    Budget support: as good as the strategy it finances

    Social Watch, 2007
    International aid donors have increasingly moved toward direct budget support as a means of reducing poverty and meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This article discusses the relevance of budget support to financing the MDGs, how it should be designed and what attitude civil society organisations should adopt towards it. 
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    The macroeconomic implications of MDG-based strategies in sub-Saharan Africa

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    An alternative macroeconomic framework oriented towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa is known and feasible. Currently, the effects of neoliberal reforms have been counter-productive with non-intervention leading to increased volatility of nominal exchange rates.
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    Current macroeconomic frameworks, challenges and alternatives for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    This paper discusses policies that have inhibited the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regions.
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    Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance

    World Bank, 2006
    This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.
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    Contradicting commitments: how the achievement of Education For All is being undermined by the International Monetary Fund

    ActionAid International, 2005
    This paper intends to demonstrate the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) role in constraining countries from increasing public expenditure in education to meet the Education For All (EFA) goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    Global partnership for development: Thailand's contribution to millennium development goal 8

    United Nations Development Programme, 2005
    Thailand has become an important emerging donor, trading partner, and provider of foreign direct investment for the benefit its poorer neighbours and those beyond its borders.
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    Does the sustained global demand for oil, gas and minerals mean that Africa can now fund its own MDG financing gap?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    A new briefing note from the ODI explores ways in which "windfalls" from natural resources such as oil, metals and minerals can be channelled effectively into development processes towards meeting the MDGs. It notes that some African countries may be closer to funding the gap between inflows of aid and investment, and what is needed to meet the MDGs.
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    MDGs, taxpayers and aid effectiveness

    OECD Development Centre, 2005
    This paper argues that taxpayers in developed countries currently lack awareness of poverty alleviation initiatives other than short-term humanitarian relief, and that, to garner their support in this area, more resources need to be devoted to addressing this gap in knowledge. It argues that if the public are better informed they will demand accountability, and will be less willing for aid budg

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