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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Dirk Willem te Velde

    Poor countries hit harder than expected by global financial and economic crisis

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 3 June 2009
    The global financial and economic crisis is hitting developing countries harder than previously thought, according to a ground-breaking study coordinated by the Overseas Development Institute. ODI and developing country researchers have examined the impact of the crisis, and country level policy responses in ten countries: Bangladesh; Benin; Bolivia; Cambodia; Ghana; Indonesia; Kenya; Nigeria; Uganda; and Zambia.
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  4. Ghana

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 April 2009
    ODI Global Financial Crisis Discussion Papers 5
    Charles Godfred Ackah, Ellen Bortei-Dorku Aryeetey and Ernest Aryeetey

    The current financial crisis, following so closely the 2007-2008 food and fuel price shocks, and the expected slowdown of global growth have come at a moment when Ghana is considered more vulnerable than it has been in the recent past.

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  6. Dirk Willem te Velde

    Monitoring the monitors. The financial crisis and developing countries

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 7 April 2009
    The G-20 London summit is over. The numbers have been agreed. Some really good promises on aid and finance, but now we need to wait and see whether and how the $50 billion earmarked for low-income developing countries will actually flow to those who need it, under what conditions, and through which reformed institutions. We need to wait and see whether the G-20 countries refrain from becoming more protectionist, and whether they will engage in a rainbow stimulus, investing in aid for trade, protecting the poorest, and low-carbon technologies.
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  7. Global Financial Crisis Preliminary Synthesis of Ten Draft Country Reports

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 6 April 2009
    Dirk Willem te Velde, Massimiliano Cali, Jodie Keane, Jane Kennan, Isabella Massa, Anna McCord, Mareike Meyn, Milo Vandemoortele and case study contributors from 10 countries

    The Overseas Development Institute is coordinating a 10 country study examining the effects of the global financial crisis and discussing policy implications. While our previous research has indicated the main transmission belts (trade, private capital flows, remittances, aid), the research finds that different countries are being affected differently.

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