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PRSP processes in eight African countries: Initial impacts and potential for institutionalization
Booth, David - 2001
Partnership with Africa (SPA) that considers early experiences with PRSPs in eight African countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279189
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Poverty-reducing institutional change and PRSP processes: The Ghana case
Killick, Tony - 2001
This paper assesses the preparation of Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy paper (GPRS), paying particular attention to its likely influence on the institutionalisation of anti-poverty measures in the country’s political economy. After examining contextual factors, it analyses the strengths...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279015
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Making debt relief conditionality pro-poor
Morrissey, Oliver - 2002
This paper considers how the conditionality inherent in HIPC debt relief should be constituted to promote pro-poor policies. There are two dimensions to this. First, the extent to which the policies proposed are pro-poor. Second, the potential for releasing resources for pro-poor expenditures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279026
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Debt reduction for poverty eradication in the least developed countries: Analysis and recommendations on LDC debt
2001
This paper reviews the main obstacles to human and social development posed by the current external debt burdens of the least development countries. In particular, it analyses the shortcomings of the mechanisms and thresholds used to assess the sustainability of debt levels in the HIPC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279053
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Owning economic reforms: A comparative study of Ghana and Tanzania
Tsikata, Yvonne M. - 2001
This paper compares reform ownership in Ghana and Tanzania over the past two decades. It finds that on several dimensions, Ghana’s early economic reforms enjoyed a high degree of ownership. That ownership was not embedded, however, in a politico-institutional framework that ensured that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279112
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Can HIPC reduce poverty in Tanzania?
Danielson, Anders - 2001
While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact on poverty. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the amounts of both income and non-income poverty are roughly the same as they were a decade ago. Since debt relief provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279264
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Debt relief and civil war
Addison, Tony; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001
Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief could help to redress the grievances that contribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279301
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Does aid mitigate external shocks?
Collier, Paul; Goderis, Benedikt - 2008
This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in commodity-dependent countries. Using a large crosscountry dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth, while the ex ante risk of shocks does not seem to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323524
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The politics of revenue sharing in resource-dependent states
Herbst, Jeffrey - 2001
In a significant number of developing countries, revenue from the sale of a few natural resources accounts for the vast majority of export earnings and a large share of total government revenue. As a result, the allocation of revenue from natural resources is a critical political question....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279010
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Reform of the Malawian public sector: Incentives, governance and accountability
Durevall, Dick - 2001
Since the early 1990s, Malawi has tried to undertake economic reforms, including the restructuring of the public sector … corruption. This chapter analyses the factors, which have influenced public sector reforms in Malawi, with emphasis on the nature … countries, top political support has been important for the successful implementation of public sector reform in Malawi. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279141