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    Evaluation of technical assistance to post-conflict countries-Mozambique and Rwanda

    International Monetary Fund, 2009
    This evaluation of technical assistance (TA) in statistics covers two post-conflict countries, namely, Mozambique and Rwanda during the period 2000–08.
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    Western policies are responsible for Africa’s failure to develop

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Development policies are based on a flawed analysis of the history of development by the West. African development strategies need to solve local problems with the existing material and intellectual resources of local people. Africa does not need big social goals but small policies that make everyday life more predictable.Two ideas are central to the concept of development.
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    The Great Lakes Pact and the rights of displaced people: a guide for civil society

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent conflict.
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    Mozambique as a model for national disaster response strategies

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In early 2007, Mozambique suffered severe flooding in its central region and a cyclone that devastated southern coastal districts. Although up to 500,000 people were affected, the emergency response was largely successful because the Government was well prepared.
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    How soon can donors exit from post-conflict states?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2008
    This paper evaluates and estimates the time and dollar costs of post-conflict rebuilding. Utilising four post-conflict states – Liberia, Mozambique, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste – as case studies, it argues that it will be decades, possibly generations, before post-conflict states are ready to see donors leave.
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    Turning around fragile states

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Donor interest in fragile states has increased recently, partly due to the belief that extreme poverty, economic decline and violent conflict are linked to the rise in global terrorism. But donors need to understand better the factors that affect development in these countries if aid is to be more effective.
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    Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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    A troubling dilemma: capacity building in the midst of conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As conflicts rage, is it realistic for the international community to hope to build local capacity? Or should it focus solely on delivering assistance? Are current patterns of north-south interaction helpful in the resolving of humanitarian crises? Can we move away from the compartmentalisation of humanitarian relief into small boxes and short time-frames?
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    Post-war debt, reconstruction and poverty alleviation in Mozambique

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper integrates micro- and macro-economic perspectives of post-war reconstruction in Mozambique and suggests policy recommendations for other war-affected highly indebted poor countries.Paper shows how peasant household production and coping choices in northern Mozambique were war-constrained for many years after the end of fighting.
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    From humanitarian assistance to poverty reduction in Angola

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    Paper discusses how to focus public policy on poverty reduction, both during wartime and in peace (if it can be achieved). It begins by summarising the scale of unmet human need in Angola, the characteristics of poverty, and the determinants of the country's very high level of income inequality.

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