Growth and Investment

• Trade investment and poverty - ODI Opinions (2004)
• Foreign Direct Investment for development - policy challenges for Sub-Saharan African countries, Dirk Willem te Velde, 2002
• Growth and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: case studies, Dirk Willem te Velde, Michael Warner and Sheila Page, September 2004 - Commissioned by the Commission for Africa
• Developed country support for growth and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, Dirk Willem te Velde, September 2004

Private Sector Development

• The business of poverty - ODI Opinions (2004)
• The Millennium Project: A Sound Strategy for Reaching the MDGs? - ODI Opinions (2005)
• Profit and Development Impact: Business Partnerships for African Development Meeting Report, 26 October 2004
• Modifying Project Opportunities and Risk Analysis for Enhanced Social Performance - Briefing Note 1, Business and Development Performance
• Involving Large Contractors in Enhancing Social Performance During Construction - Briefing Note 2, Business and Development Performance
• Levers and Pulleys: Extractive Industries and Local Economic Development: Incentivising Innovation by Lead Contractors through Contract Tendering - Briefing Note 3, Business and Development Performance
• Infrastructure in Africa: The UK Commission for Africa Report and a Role for Private Engineering Contractors – Briefing Note 5, Business and Development Performance

Inequality

• Reconciling rights, growth and inequality - Meeting Report, 25 January 2005
• Inequality in Middle-Income Countries - Briefing Paper, December 2004

Public Expenditure

• Budgets, public expenditure and poverty reduction - Papers form the Medium Term Expenditure Framework Study, including 9 country case studies, synthesis and good practice guidance papers
• Why Budgets Matter: The New Agenda of Public Expenditure Management - ODI Briefing Paper, May 2004
• Public Expenditure for Development Results and Poverty Reduction, John Roberts, Working Paper 203, 2003
• How, When and Why does Poverty get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Five African Countries: Synthesis Paper, Mick Foster et al, Working Paper 168, 2002
• General Budget Support Evaluation Framework and
  Evaluability Study: Phase I Final Synthesis Report and
  Phase 2 Country Case Studies: Mozambique & Andhra Pradesh
• What's Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process - Andy Norton and Diane Elson. This book aims to contribute to the evolving understanding of public expenditure management as a political, rather than a purely technical, process.

Tourism and Poverty Reduction

• Pro Poor Tourism Pilots in Southern Africa - The project's role is to provide the means by which Southern African tourism enterprises can expand their understanding and use of Pro-Poor Tourism strategies. The purpose is to increase the benefits from tourism to the poor.
• From Philanthropy to a Different Way of Doing Business: strategies and challenges in integrating Pro-poor approaches into tourism businesses - October 2004
• 'Just Wildlife?' Or a source of local development? Natural Resource Perspectives 85, April 2003
• Working papers containing case studies of pro-poor tourism in Africa (South Africa, Uganda, Namibia, Kenya).

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