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Case study

Tackling Corruption: Lessons from Oxfam’s work

01/11/2008

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Corruption drives poverty, powerlessness, and exclusion in societies where having little cash or influence means no access to basic entitlements, public services, justice, or even physical security. But corruption is not an isolated issue. It is part of a set of societal, economic, political, and cultural systems that deny people in poverty access to rights […]

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Campaign report

In the Public Interest: Health, education and water and sanitation for all

01/09/2006

6 documents

126 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

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This report shows that building strong public services in developing countries is at the heart of making poverty history. Doing this could transform the lives of millions of people – and, with political leadership, is well within the grasp of our generation. Governments must take responsibility for providing essential services that are well staffed, affordable […]

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Briefing paper

The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals: Failing to deliver for low income countries

01/09/2003

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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The IMF needs to radically change the way it works in low income countries. It must finally move on from an outdated focus on exclusively short-term macro-stability and pessimism about aid to one based on long-term poverty needs and the MDGs. If it does this it can play a vital, proactive and dynamic role as […]

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