'This paper outlines urgent action necessary to address immediate challenges in Afghanistan and to avert humanitarian disaster. It does not seek to address all issues of concern but focuses on essential policy change in development and humanitarian spheres.
While aid has contributed to progress in Afghanistan, especially in social and economic infrastructure – and whilst more aid is needed – the development process has to date been too centralised, top-heavy and insufficient.'
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'Increasing insecurity and criminality is jeopardising progress in Afghanistan. With low government revenues, international assistance constitutes around 90% of all public expenditure in the country, thus how it is spent has an enormous impact on the lives of almost all Afghans and will determine the success of reconstruction and development. Given the links between development and security, the effectiveness of aid also has a major impact on peace and stability in the country. Yet thus far aid more...
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This report is the last in a series from the Jubilee research programme – one of the official successors to the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign – at nef (the new economics foundation) designed to stimulate progress towards a comprehensive and fair treatment of the crisis of sovereign debt of some of the world’s poorest nations. With concern growing about the stability of the global financial system, and the end of an unprecedented period of low interest rates now in sight, this is needed more more...
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Africa Development Indicators 2007 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries. ADI provides data from 1960 to 2006 grouped into 14 chapters.
This is a World Bank publication.(Page:176)
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'The Betteraid.blog is the place to find gossip, inside stories and interesting tit-bits on how rich country governments and multilateral institutions are spending their aid money. Many public commitments to improve the way aid money is delivered to poor people are not being implemented. At the same time some changes are underway and good precedents being set.
This collaborative blog was launched in September 2007, by a group of concerned civil society activists (see links in right hand col more...
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'Betteraid.org is a campaign website that aims to provide information and updates on aid effectiveness issues, especially related to the CSO parallel process towards the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra September 2008 reviewing the Paris Declaration.'
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Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme Newsletter
The Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme on Social Development promotes technical exchanges between Brazil and African countries. Currently, twenty-six delegates from Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, the African Union, NEPAD and AfDB are participating in a Study Tour in Brazil.
Click here to download: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/publications/cct/brazil/news_eng2.pdf
Visit the IPC website: http://www.undp-povertyce more...
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