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No. 74 | 01 Aug 2008 |
A Farewell to Policy Conditionality?
The idea of local “ownership” of development policies is now popular among the donor community, but without a reduction of conditionality on aid disbursements, enhanced ownership will be difficult to achieve. While there are still strong reasons for... |
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No. 73 | 01 Aug 2008 |
A Paris Declaration for International NGOs?
International NGOs want official donors to co-ordinate and harmonise their activities and to become more accountable to recipients. International NGOs are donors in their own right, and their own adherence to aid effectiveness principles leaves much... |
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No. 41 | 01 Apr 2007 |
Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Africa
Africa is unlikely to reach the drinking water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals. Disparities among countries are large, and the deficit in sanitation is greater than that for drinking water. Serious reforms in institutions, legal... |
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No. 9 | 01 Jun 2005 |
Adaptive Capacity and Inclusive Development
The Centre has highlighted in particular four areas where OECD countries can make a difference: maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment with affordable interest rates; helping to mitigate risks; enhancing trade opportunities through improving... |
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No. 47 | 01 Apr 2007 |
Africa in 2007
Growth will accelerate for net oil exporters and weaken slightly for oil importers, strengthening the trends projected in African Economic Outlook 2006. For the oil importers, moreover, inflation is moving to double-digit levels. Budget deficits in... |
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No. 64 | 01 Apr 2008 |
Africa in 2008
Growth will accelerate for net oil exporters and weaken slightly for oil importers. Inflation is rising due to increases in the price of food imports and rising oil prices. The current-account deficits of oil-importing countries are increasing. |
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No. 43 | 01 May 2007 |
Africa's Private Sector
The recent expansion of African horticultural exports has proven that business is changing on the continent. The experience of Senegal and Mali suggests that the two countries are facing major challenges in strengthening policy co-ordination,... |
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No. 55 | 01 Dec 2007 |
Africa: A New Frontier for Emerging Markets?
Fast-growing African countries are attracting private equity and risk capital as never before. The conditions attracting private investors are likely to improve. |
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No. 22 | 01 May 2006 |
African Economic Outlook 2006
Africa’s economic progress now seems on a firm footing after a third straight year of satisfactory performance in 2005, with overall growth of 5 per cent, average per capita income up 3 per cent and inflation steady at under 10 per cent. Two-thirds... |
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No. 20 | 01 May 2006 |
African Economic Outlook 2006
The focus on war and anecdotal evidence hides real progress towards more stable and open political systems in Africa. This is demonstrated by a new indicator based on a systematic screening of political events and decisions over the last ten years.... |
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No. 6 | 01 May 2005 |
African Economic Performance in 2004
Against a backdrop of sustained global growth and high commodity prices, Africa has experienced its best economic performance in many years. While recent economic performance is not merely driven by favourable external factors, African economies... |
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No. 46 | 01 Apr 2007 |
Africans Need not Miss Out on the Benefits of Globalisation
Strong commodity prices are driving Africa’s growth, which should be about 6 % in 2007 and 2008. External vulnerability is a function of its limited integration into international trade and investment flows. Africa should mobilise external sources... |
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No. 24 | 01 Aug 2006 |
Aid and Coherence of OECD Country Policies
Foreign aid flows disproportionately to the poorest among the developing countries. Countries that account for the poorest fifth of world’s population receive more than a fifth of aid spending from OECD countries. Similarly, the benefits of trade... |
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No. 76 | 01 Sept 2008 |
Are the Financial Markets Politically Correct?
Are the financial markets politically correct? In other words, do they have preferences when it comes to political regimes or partisans? This issue has often been explored with regard to foreign direct investment (FDI) or public development aid, but... |
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No. 23 | 01 Jun 2006 |
China
China’s trade impact on Latin America is positive via an export boom and indirectly better terms of trade. Its emergence is also a wake up call for the region: more reforms are needed, especially in infrastructure, in order to maintain Latin... |
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No. 65 | 01 Apr 2008 |
Combating Under-five Mortality in Africa
Reducing under-five mortality rates in Africa by two-thirds is urgent. HIV-AIDS, malaria, lack of basic health services and conflict are hampering progress. Preventable diseases take a heavy toll on the under-fives. Preventing the deaths of children... |
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No. 3 | 01 Jan 2005 |
Corporate Governance
The quality of local corporate governance is critically important for the success of long-tem development efforts throughout the developing world today. |
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No. 35 | 01 Dec 2006 |
Culture, Family Ties and the Saving Hand
Different cultures entail both a great diversity of household structures and different saving patterns. The diversity of family relations and saving patterns creates different incentives for physical and human capital accumulation. Policies can alter... |
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No. 15 | 01 Nov 2005 |
Culture, Gender and Growth
While the overall picture for gender equality is still gloomy, recent changes in family institutions in come countries provide an enlightening example. |
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No. 5 | 31 Jan 2005 |
Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction
Decentralisation has become a key issue in development policy in the past two decades. Whereas the advantages and risks of transferring power and resources to local tiers of government have been debated for quite some time, it is only very recently... |
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A Farewell to Policy Conditionality?
Andrew Mold and Felix Zimmermann
01 Aug 2008
The idea of local “ownership” of development policies is now popular among the donor community, but without a reduction of conditionality on aid disbursements, enhanced ownership will be difficult to achieve. While there are still strong reasons for...
A Paris Declaration for International NGOs?
Dirk-Jan Koch
01 Aug 2008
International NGOs want official donors to co-ordinate and harmonise their activities and to become more accountable to recipients. International NGOs are donors in their own right, and their own adherence to aid effectiveness principles leaves much...
Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Africa
Céline Kauffmann
01 Apr 2007
Africa is unlikely to reach the drinking water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals. Disparities among countries are large, and the deficit in sanitation is greater than that for drinking water. Serious reforms in institutions, legal...
Adaptive Capacity and Inclusive Development
Ulrich Hiemenz
01 Jun 2005
The Centre has highlighted in particular four areas where OECD countries can make a difference: maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment with affordable interest rates; helping to mitigate risks; enhancing trade opportunities through improving...
Africa in 2007
Kenneth G. Ruffing
01 Apr 2007
Growth will accelerate for net oil exporters and weaken slightly for oil importers, strengthening the trends projected in African Economic Outlook 2006. For the oil importers, moreover, inflation is moving to double-digit levels. Budget deficits in...
Africa in 2008
Kenneth G. Ruffing
01 Apr 2008
Growth will accelerate for net oil exporters and weaken slightly for oil importers. Inflation is rising due to increases in the price of food imports and rising oil prices. The current-account deficits of oil-importing countries are increasing.
Africa's Private Sector
Yoshiko Matsumoto-Izadifar
01 May 2007
The recent expansion of African horticultural exports has proven that business is changing on the continent. The experience of Senegal and Mali suggests that the two countries are facing major challenges in strengthening policy co-ordination,...
Africa: A New Frontier for Emerging Markets?
Javier Santiso
01 Dec 2007
Fast-growing African countries are attracting private equity and risk capital as never before. The conditions attracting private investors are likely to improve.
African Economic Outlook 2006
Céline Kauffmann, Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner
01 May 2006
Africa’s economic progress now seems on a firm footing after a third straight year of satisfactory performance in 2005, with overall growth of 5 per cent, average per capita income up 3 per cent and inflation steady at under 10 per cent. Two-thirds...
African Economic Outlook 2006
Lucia Wegner and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte
01 May 2006
The focus on war and anecdotal evidence hides real progress towards more stable and open political systems in Africa. This is demonstrated by a new indicator based on a systematic screening of political events and decisions over the last ten years....
African Economic Performance in 2004
Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner
01 May 2005
Against a backdrop of sustained global growth and high commodity prices, Africa has experienced its best economic performance in many years. While recent economic performance is not merely driven by favourable external factors, African economies...
Africans Need not Miss Out on the Benefits of Globalisation
Federico Bonaglia, Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner
01 Apr 2007
Strong commodity prices are driving Africa’s growth, which should be about 6 % in 2007 and 2008. External vulnerability is a function of its limited integration into international trade and investment flows. Africa should mobilise external sources...
Aid and Coherence of OECD Country Policies
Denis Cogneau and Sylvie Lambert
01 Aug 2006
Foreign aid flows disproportionately to the poorest among the developing countries. Countries that account for the poorest fifth of world’s population receive more than a fifth of aid spending from OECD countries. Similarly, the benefits of trade...
Are the Financial Markets Politically Correct?
Sebastián Nieto Parra and Javier Santiso
01 Sept 2008
Are the financial markets politically correct? In other words, do they have preferences when it comes to political regimes or partisans? This issue has often been explored with regard to foreign direct investment (FDI) or public development aid, but...
China
Javier Santiso
01 Jun 2006
China’s trade impact on Latin America is positive via an export boom and indirectly better terms of trade. Its emergence is also a wake up call for the region: more reforms are needed, especially in infrastructure, in order to maintain Latin...
Combating Under-five Mortality in Africa
Audrey Verdier-Chouchane
01 Apr 2008
Reducing under-five mortality rates in Africa by two-thirds is urgent. HIV-AIDS, malaria, lack of basic health services and conflict are hampering progress. Preventable diseases take a heavy toll on the under-fives. Preventing the deaths of children...
Corporate Governance
Charles P. Oman and Daniel Blume
01 Jan 2005
The quality of local corporate governance is critically important for the success of long-tem development efforts throughout the developing world today.
Culture, Family Ties and the Saving Hand
Christian Morrisson and Juan Ramón de Laiglesia
01 Dec 2006
Different cultures entail both a great diversity of household structures and different saving patterns. The diversity of family relations and saving patterns creates different incentives for physical and human capital accumulation. Policies can alter...
Culture, Gender and Growth
Johannes Jütting and Christian Morrisson
01 Nov 2005
While the overall picture for gender equality is still gloomy, recent changes in family institutions in come countries provide an enlightening example.
Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction
Johannes Jütting, Elena Corsi and Albrecht Stockmayer
31 Jan 2005
Decentralisation has become a key issue in development policy in the past two decades. Whereas the advantages and risks of transferring power and resources to local tiers of government have been debated for quite some time, it is only very recently...