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Aid, Growth and Decentralization

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This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same time, decentralization has reverse effects, e.g., through coordination problems, excessive regulation, administrative costs and local capture. Using panel data for up to 59 countries, we find that aid more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on February 06, 2010

Budget support in Practice (in english, français, deutsch)

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A wealth of new reports and interviews on Budget Support in practice can be found on the website www.gersterconsulting.ch. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland, asked Gerster Consulting to take a closer and practical look at budget support from various points of view. On that background a series of field reports and interviews were written to cover experiences made in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Tanzania. They aim at illuminating chances more...

Added by Richard Gerster to Aid Effectiveness on February 05, 2010

Aid and growth: have we come full circle?

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The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature has turned decidedly pessimistic with respect to the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth. Policy implications, such as the complete cessation of aid to Africa, are being drawn on the basis of fragile evidence.This paper first assesses the aid-growth literature with a focus on recent contributions.The aid-growth literature is then framed, for the first time, more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on February 04, 2010

G20: Form, not Substance

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As the self-appointed economic guardians of the world and thousands of protesters converge on Pittsburgh for the third summit of the Group of 20 (G20), expectations are low that a breakthrough will take place in the form of a coordinated action to address the global economic crisis.

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on February 01, 2010

G8 Summit: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?

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As the rich Group of 8 (G8) nations convene in L'Aquila, Italy, world hunger will once again take center stage. The United States will likely announce a "significant" increase in funding for agricultural development aid, along with multi-year commitments from other G8 countries. This follows the G8's admission of failure in tackling hunger at it’s first-ever farm conference in Treviso, Italy -2009.Proposals to challenge hunger have become a common feature of international conferences since the more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on January 31, 2010

Procurement and Development Effectiveness

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This document has been commissioned by Eurodad as part of the project “Assessing and improving aid effectiveness implementation through civil society research and advocacy”. Its purpose is to provide a literature review on development-related procurement policies and practices. The aim of the review is to advise on how to identify the contribution and potential of procurement policies and practices for development effectiveness. The document aims to be a tool for ongoing research.

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on January 21, 2010

100 people every minute pushed into poverty by the economic crisis, Oxfam warns G20

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Poor countries across the globe are struggling to respond to the global recession that continues to slash incomes, destroy jobs and has helped push the total number of hungry people in the world above 1 billion. The G20 should take urgent action to protect poor countries from the economic crisis that is forcing 100 people-a-minute into poverty. The economic crisis arrived as poor countries were already struggling to cope with high food prices and floods, droughts and food shortages linked to more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on November 17, 2009

G20 on Track to Fail the World’s Poor

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The financial crisis presents a rare opportunity to build a system of international finance that works in the true interest of the global public, but the G20 ministers seem intent on maintaining the unsustainable growth-oriented global economy of the past. more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on November 17, 2009

ACP-EU News service from Brussels

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The CTA Brussels weblog provides daily online news on ACP-EU policy development cooperation issues. Users have access to policy documents and news, key events in Brussels relevant to agriculture and rural development for ACP countries and information on the Brussels development community. Every week a special guest is interviewed on topical development policy issues. Readers can access to thematic content (trade, fisheries, aid, environment, more...

Added by Romano Purro to Aid Effectiveness on November 04, 2009

European Development Days in Stockholm (22-24 October 2009)

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The European Development Days, co-organized by the European Commission and the Swedish Presidency, were held in Stockholm on 22-24 October 2009. For the occasion, the blog Ideas for Development organised a series of reports allowing the readers to follow the event: a live diary of the EDDs with summaries of the sessions and interviews of present personalities: Dr Pachauri (IPCC), Donald Kaberuka (AfDB), Margot Wallström (Vice-president of the European Commission), Eva Joly (European more...

Added by Blog Ideas4development to Aid Effectiveness on November 02, 2009

G20: One Voice for All?

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It caught observers and analysts by surprise. The Pittsburgh G20 summit witnessed the death-knell of the G8 as the sole arbiter of global economic policy and the transference of power to the G20 grouping. Officially this will take place at the G20 summit at the end of 2010 in South Korea, as Canada - in perhaps an unwelcome reminder of parochial G8 decision-making - is keen to keep ‘its’ G8 event as relevant as possible. The G8, after much debate over its futility as a global decision-making more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on October 05, 2009

Annual Report 2009 on the European Community's Development and External Assistance Policies

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Development and external assistance are now central policies of the EU. They are major components of its international influence and effective instruments of its soft power. Their main purpose is to fight poverty and promote economic development and democracy. The present decade has seen the rise of the EU as a leading actor in the development field. The figures are impressive: the amounts committed have increased by 90% since 2001. In 2008, the EU and its Member States was again the biggest more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on September 28, 2009

VoiceOver 2015: join the Dutch debate on development cooperation

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VoiceOver 2015 is looking for new members Is development aid effective? Are there ways The Netherlands can help reduce poverty in the world? Should they send more peace missions? What should be the role of the private sector? What do you think? VoiceOver 2015 is a group of people from developing countries who contribute to the Dutch debate with their opinions about international cooperation. In addition they share information about the reality of living in a developing country. more...

Added by Lisette van der Burg to Aid Effectiveness on September 17, 2009

Three Ways the G20 Could Deliver Up To $280 Billion for Poor Countries

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oxfam.org.uk -

At the London Summit in April of 2009 the G20 showed clear leadership in the face of the economic crisis. G20 finance ministers meet again this weekend in London, and their bosses convene in Pittsburgh at the end of September.Oxfam believes that with three steps, (Implement a Currency Transaction Tax (CTT); Transfer half of rich countries’ new Special Drawing Rights allocations and Deal with tax havens) the G20 can generate US$280 billion of new financing for the world’s poorest countries, at more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on September 06, 2009

IMF Financial Package for Low-Income Countries: Much ado about nothing?

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board approved two packages on issues crucial to the world’s poorest countries as they grapple with the effects of the devastating economic and financial crisis.While many civil society organizations would have preferred that funds were channeled through a different institution, and through regional financing arrangements, the G20 chose the IMF in April. Unfortunately, the changes agreed in July do not meet the demands made by global civil society for more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on September 02, 2009

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