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Post-war aid: patterns and purposes

01/11/2005

10 pages long

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A recent report by the World Bank reiterates the widely held view that donor agencies commit large amounts of funding in the immediate post-conflict phase, only for this to taper off to more ‘normal’ levels once the crisis is over. The World Bank criticises this phenomenon, referred to as ‘frontloading’, claiming that it damages the […]

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Canterbury to Cameroon: a new partnership between faiths and the World Bank

01/08/2005

8 pages long

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The World Bank and world religions are two of the most powerful forces in the developing world. The Bank has access to vast financial resources, while faiths have vast social access and credibility. Partnership between the Bank and religious groups could have a significant impact on development efforts, but dialogue between them appears impotent. That […]

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Issue briefing

Oxfam International Submission to World Bank Review of Conditionality, May 2005

14/06/2005

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5 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam International welcomes the World Bank’s decision to review its conditionality practice in 2005. Reforming the way conditionality is designed and applied is critical to improving aid effectiveness, and orienting the aid system as a whole to meet the Millennium Development Goals. However, for the review to make a real difference to the way the […]

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The World Bank’s land of kiosks: Community driven development in Timor-Leste

01/06/2005

7 pages long

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The World Bank’s Community Empowerment and Local Governance Project (CEP) was the key donor programme to assist with community reconstruction in a newly independent Timor-Leste. Commencing in 2000, the US$18 million project provided funds to over 400 local development councils that had been newly created to meet their community’s development needs. Rather than creating genuine […]

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Briefing paper

Undervaluing Teachers: IMF policies squeeze Zambia’s education system

27/09/2004

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23 pages long

Languages: English

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Zambia is a country on the brink. One in 5 people are infected with HIV, life expectancy has dropped to 33 years and young people aged 20-25 actually have less education than their parents’ generation. Therefore, the achievement of Zambia’s new government in getting more children into school holds out a critical glimmer of hope. […]

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Women, trade, and migration

01/07/2004

7 pages long

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The impact of modern trade policies on the position of women across the world has produced a growing literature in recent years. This has largely concentrated on analyses of the impact on women of privatisation and trade liberalisation during the course of the past two decades. There has been increased interest on the part of […]

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Briefing paper

Made at Home: British homeworkers in the global supply chain

06/05/2004

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38 pages long

Languages: English

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No minimum wage, no sick pay, no maternity leave, no redundancy pay, forced overtime, no health and safety checks: this is the story of women around the world working to supply British supermarkets and retailers – the story told by Oxfam International in the report Trading Away Our Rights. It is the story of how […]

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Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion

01/11/2003

8 pages long

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This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […]

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Briefing paper

Education for All Fast Track: The No-Progress Report

11/09/2003

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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The EFA Fast Track Initiative is a ground-breaking compact between rich and poor countries, which aims to close the education financing gap in countries that implement far-reaching reforms. In April 2003, the World Bank’s Development Committee requested a progress report on the FTI in time for their meeting in Dubai. They will not get one, […]

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Briefing paper

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

01/09/2003

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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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