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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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Overview

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

Debt and the Millennium Development Goals: A new deal for low-income countries

01/09/2003

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

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

Where is the Impact? There should be no more delay in delivering poverty and social impact analysis for World Bank and IMFsupported policy reforms in developing countries

01/04/2003

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The World Bank and IMF continue to drive forward policy reforms in developing countries with almost no prior analysis of the likely impact on poverty. Despite repeated commitments to ensure Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is carried out on all key reforms, very little progress has been made. The Spring Meetings are a perfect […]

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Briefing paper

Window of Opportunity: Why fast track funds must be released now

23/09/2002

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Education financing

Overview

The Fast Track compact has created a window for radical change in some of the poorest countries in the world — change that would bring millions of children into schools and permanently transform the structure of human capital in these countries. To keep that window open, it is vital that donors release funds to get […]

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Issue briefing

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

01/08/2002

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

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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Research report

Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

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Briefing note

Drug Policy at the 55th World Health Assembly May 2002: Ensuring Accessibility of Essential Medicines Resolution EB109.R17

11/05/2002

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Access to medicines

Overview

More than one-third of the world’s population lacks regular access to essential medicines, many people need to pay out-of-pocket for medicines they can access, regulatory authorities often face incredible difficulties in carrying out their mandate and financing for health is still very limited: in some countries, it is less than US $2 per person per […]

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Briefing paper

The Key to Peace: Unlocking the human potential in Sudan

26/04/2002

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This report, produced by six aid agencies operating in Sudan, articulates the appalling human cost of Sudan’s conflict. It calls for urgent and sustained action on the part of warring parties and the international community to bring about an immediate end to that suffering. Although the report refers to areas in which the warring parties […]

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Briefing paper

The European Union: A potential global force for change

01/09/2000

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The EU has reached a turning point in the way it relates to the rest of the world. Changes in the global political and economic landscape following the cold war, along with widespread criticism of the wasteful and inefficient use of aid, has forced the EU to take a closer look at its external relations. […]

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Research report

A Critique of the EC’s WTO Sustainability Impact Assessment Study and Recommendations for Phase III

01/03/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In 1999 the European Commission commissioned the University of Manchester to conduct a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of the WTO’s proposed Millennium Round. The study aims to develop a methodology for carrying out SIAs and to use this methodology to make a broad assessment of the potential impacts (positive and negative effects) upon the sustainability […]

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