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    Emergence of LoCs as a modality in India’s development cooperation: evolving policy context and new challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    Development cooperation is an integral part of India’s foreign policy and India has been extending cooperation to its fellow developing countries even before its independence in 1947.
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    What is poverty reduction?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    In recent years, the development community has emphasised poverty reduction – defined as increases in economic growth - as the main objective of foreign assistance. In part, this has been to prevent aid from being diverted to other goals. But poverty reduction encompasses many goals, some of which are contradictory.
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    The economic effects of restricted access to land in the West Bank

    World Bank, 2008
    In developing countries, land often provides a foundation for economic activities in a variety of sectors. In the West Bank, it takes on a particular significance as economic activity is stifled by conflict and much of the land area is inaccessible due to Israeli restrictions on movement of people and access to natural resources.
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    Fiscal management and scaled-up aid

    IMF Publications, 2007
    With increasing aid entering many developing countries, there is a need for sound fiscal policy in order to manage these volatile flows. This paper reviews measures that should be taken in order to strengthen public financial management in order to ensure effective use of these scaled-up aid flows.
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    Growth strategies and conditions for pro-poor growth: Uganda’s experience

    Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda, 2005
    This paper provides an overview of the broad economic strategies Uganda has implemented since independence in 1962. The authors conclude that the Ugandan experience demonstrates the vital importance of macroeconomic stability in promoting investments, factor productivity, domestic revenue and exports.
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    Monetary policies for an mdg-related scaling up of ODA to combat HIV/AIDS

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    What would be the effects of a surge in aid flows in developing countries? This paper discusses the best monetary policy to manage the macroeconomic effects of a Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-related scaling up of aid inflows to address the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The paper suggests that the evidence on the overvaluation effects of aid flow is thin, at best.
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    Does the IMF cap health spending in developing countries?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    Most of the recently negotiated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes include a ceiling which limits the opportunities for countries to utilise increasing aid, including billions of dollars for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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    Making fiscal space happen: managing fiscal policy in a world of scaled-up aid

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    The G8 countries have committed to double aid flows to developing countries by 2010. Although these funds offer great opportunities to recipient countries, aid inflows of such magnitude pose significant macroeconomic challenges to low income countries (LIC).
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    A policymakers’ guide to Dutch disease

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    Aimed at policy-makers, this paper tackles the issue of Dutch Disease - that is, the theory that aid flows will lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate which can slow the growth of a country’s exports— and that aid increases might thereby harm a country’s long-term growth prospects.
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    Fiscal policy for poverty reduction, reconstruction, and growth

    United Nations University, 2006
    This document reviews the major areas of fiscal policy, setting out and assessing how thinking around public spending, taxation, and the macroeconomics of fiscal reform have evolved, particularly towards reducing poverty, accelerating growth, and preventing conflict.The authors suggest:aid cannot be effective without a good fiscal system and that the previous aid policies failed because

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