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Cambodia.s land management and administration project

Biddulph, Robin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian governme

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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies

Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Nino-Zarazua, Miguel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effective in

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Success when stars align: Public financial management reforms in Sierra Leone

Tavakoli, Heidi; Cessay, Ismaila; Cole, Winston - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Since the end of the civil war, the Government of Sierra Leone has made substantial progress in strengthening public financial management. Improvements have been achieved across all aspects of the budget cycle and are particularly notable with regard to b

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Rethinking the Policy Objectives of Development Aid: From Economic Growth to Conflict Prevention

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in particular. In addition, the dominant view identifies economic … architecture in general. The paper shows that violent conflict is a major obstacle to achieving the MDGs; it identifies 64 worst … deployed to reduce these risks. Conflict prevention is thus an important policy objective as a means to achieving MDGs as well …

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Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is...

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Development Policy: An Introduction for Students

Addison, Tony - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

This paper discusses development policy objectives, noting how these have changed over the years, with a more explicit focus on poverty reduction coming recently to the fore. It also examines the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. The paper then discusses how to achieve...

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International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development? Evidence for 1975 to 2002

Noorbakhsh, Farhad - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Conflicts, Poverty and Human Development in Northern Uganda

Nannyonjo, Justine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Impact of sectoral allocation of foreign aid on gender equity and human development

Pickbourn, Lynda; Ndikumana, Leonce - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

While developing countries have made some progress in achieving human development since the turn of the century, many are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean drinking water and

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Aid Allocation and Fragile States

McGillivray, Mark - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically poor policies or poorly performing institutions, or...

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