Getting to scale in urban sanitation
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This briefing offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar).
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The role of development finance institutions in cushioning investments in vulnerable countries
This article explores the role of development finance institutions in cushioning investments in vulnerable countries. -
Maputo harbour cranes, workers offloading rice imports
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Credit: Eric Miller
Source: World BankDevelopment finance institutions, job creation and structural change
This roundtable explored development finance institutions and their linkages with job creation and structural change.
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Localising aid: sustaining change in the public, private and civil society sectors
This major new report looks at whether transferring aid to or through national systems and organisations strengthens them over the long term. -
Innovation – Development finance institutions and job creation
This project examines the role of development finance institutions in creating high-productivity jobs -
The G-20 growth framework: what role for low-income, small and vulnerable countries?
Next week, G-20 leaders will meet in Toronto, only weeks after their Finance ministers agreed a shift toward collective austerity. Today, ODI launches a collection of essays in a study to inform the G-20 leaders and underline the impact their decisions may have on low-income countries. -
Growth and Development
Looking at the role growth play in poverty reduction, and the role that the private sector and donors can play in supporting and promoting growth.
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How to achieve growth: The million dollar question
There is now widespread recognition that achieving economic growth is the only way to secure long term development and poverty reduction. No country has succeeded in sustainably reducing poverty in the absence of growth. And growth is almost always good for the poor. We know the conditions that are conducive to growth, but that does not mean that achieving high and sustained rates of growth is easy - only a few countries have succeeded.
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Aid for Trade
Speaking in the first panel at the Brussels Development Briefing on Aid for Trade, Sheila Page, ODI, describe the AFT agenda as result of a "bargaining process" in the framework of the Doha round. However, giving the fact that Doha is failing, Mrs. Page is afraid that the AFT agenda will become "just another aid programme" or a renamimg of existing programmes.
Source: Euforic.tv - see www.brusselsbriefings.net
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Use of subsidies by Development Finance Institutions in the infrastructure sector
Dirk Willem te Velde and Michael WarnerDFIs have a general mandate to provide finance to the private sector for investments that promote development. Infrastructure fits within this remit.