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This document reviews Nicaragua's development agenda from a growth perspective. That focus emerges from the country …'s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which traces the widespread poverty observed in Nicaragua, to the collapse of the … growth strategy, and the Bank and other donors, in designing their assistance programs for Nicaragua. The macroeconomic …
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"This paper analyzes the economic growth impact of organized political violence. First, the authors articulate the theoretical underpinnings of the growth impact of political violence in a popular model of growth under uncertainty. The authors show that, under plausible assumptions regarding...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Natural Resources and Conflict: What We Can Do -- 2. The Natural Resource Curse: How Wealth Can -- 3. Who Gets the Money? Reporting Resource Revenues -- 4. Where Did It Come From? Commodity Tracking Systems -- 5....
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A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence. This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global...
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