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From ‘Donorship’ to Ownership?: Moving towards PRSP Round Two

01/01/2004

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54 pages long

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If poor countries are to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is vital to learn the lessons from the first round of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Despite opening some new space for dialogue, Oxfam and partners feel that PRSPs have been disappointing both in terms of process and content. Oxfam welcomes the review […]

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

01/09/2003

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35 pages long

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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 It must finally move on from an outdated focus on exclusively short-term macro-stability and pessimism about aid to one based on long-term poverty needs and the MDGs.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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Debt and the Millennium Development Goals: A new deal for low-income countries

01/09/2003

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11 pages long

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The global consensus around the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has elevated the development targets to the new ‘gold standard’ of international development cooperation. This paper sets out the policy actions required by the World Bank, IMF, and bilateral donors if their stated commitment to the fulfilment of the MDGs is to be […]

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Briefing paper

Hitting the Targets: Recommendations to the G8 for delivery of the Millennium Development Goals on water and sanitation

01/05/2003

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15 pages long

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Access to water and sanitation is a right, a basic need for survival, a requirement for reducing poverty, and, a driver of growth. Much of the suffering from a lack of access to water and sanitation is borne by the poor, those who live in degraded environments, and overwhelmingly by women and girls. Provision of […]

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Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

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Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

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The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]

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Briefing paper

Education for all in Niger: Rich countries continue to neglect Africa’s children

01/01/2003

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16 pages long

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On 25 March senior aid officials will meet in Paris to take decisions that will dramatically affect the lives of millions of children around the world in countries like Niger. The government of Niger is committed to tackling the education crisis in a country where 1.3 million children have never been to school. But rich […]

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Issue briefing

A Joint Submission to the World Bank and IMF Review of HIPC and Debt Sustainability

01/08/2002

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10 pages long

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In this paper, a series of agencies propose that the World Bank and IMF and their shareholders radically overhaul the way in which debt relief is calculated and provided. The over-arching objective of debt relief must be to help mobilise the finances needed to achieve the MDGs. If HIPC countries are to meet these targets […]

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Briefing paper

Debt Relief and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa: Does the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative go far enough?

06/06/2002

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29 pages long

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HIV/AIDS poses a development challenge of unprecedented urgency, especially in Africa. Apart from the terrible personal costs, the pandemic is the single biggest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. Over one-third of HIV/AIDS sufferers live in countries classified as heavily indebted. Repayments to creditors by these countries are diverting resources needed to […]

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Last Chance in Monterrey: Meeting the challenge of Poverty Reduction

01/03/2002

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32 pages long

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On present trends, all the Millennium Development Goals will be missed by a wide margin. As a result, there will be 56 million additional child deaths and 75 million children out of primary school by 2015. But trend is not destiny. An extra $100bn a year in aid would be enough to realise the MDGs […]

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Where’s The Money? G8 promises, G8 failures

05/07/2001

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6 pages long

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The richest countries of the world promised to help developing countries halve poverty, reduce child mortality by two thirds, and ensure every child gets a free and good quality primary education. All by 2015. There remains a huge gap between promises and action. Inadequate commitments to meet a global crisis in health; inaction in education, […]

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