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This paper reviews economic developments in Barbados during the 1990s. Economic activity declined during 1990-92 but began to recover in 1993. The recovery started slowly in 1993, but picked up in 1994, and real GDP grew by 3.8 percent in that year. Adverse weather in 1994 led to a drop in sugar...
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Acronyms -- Overview -- Progress toward the MDGs -- 1 Poverty and Food Price Developments -- 2 Nutrition, the MDGs, and Food … Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? How many poor people have been prevented from lifting themselves out of poverty? How many … Monitoring Report 2012: Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals examines these questions. It summarizes the …
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Aid is not generally aimed at the poorest people, though most multilateral or bilateral agencies would like to think they get included. However, donors' strategies are generally blind to differentiation among the poor, and have not improved in this respect. The special provisions for the least...
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line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with … indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries regarding the MDGs. Our results show that donors differ not only in … aid allocation is conducive to achieving more specific MDGs such as all children completing a full course of primary …
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debt relief) that ought to help developing countries achieve the MDGs by 2015. This paper reviews the role of these MDG8 … likelihood that the country will achieve all of the MDGs by 2015, except probably for MDG 2. These advances have been achieved in …
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This paper analyzes the selection and allocation decisions of major and like-minded bilateral donors as regards development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium...
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