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Research reports and studies, January 2012

Authors: Heidi Tavakoli and Edward Hedger
This report summarises discussions and conclusions from a series of expert meetings titled - Long-term research perspectives on budget support - organised by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure (CAPE) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in 2011.
Paperback, 30 pages
Price: £10.00 + shipping
ISBN: 978-1-907288-62-3
Published by ODI

Toolkits, December 2011

Authors: Rebecca Simson, Natasha Sharma and Imran Aziz
This guide provides handbooks, guidance notes and articles that are useful for people implementing public financial management (PFM) systems.
39 pages
Published by ODI This resources was an output of the following ODI project: Budget Strengthening Initiative .
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Discussion papers, December 2011

Authors: Sian Herbert and Romilly Greenhill
This submission to the International Development Committee’s (IDC) inquiry into EU development assistance seeks to address the following questions: What development objectives can the UK better pursue through the EC than through bilateral means? How much funding should be allocated to EC development assistance? What countries and sectors should the EC concentrate its funds on? How should these funds be managed?
20 pages
Published by ODI
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ODI Background Notes, November 2011

Authors: Andrew Rogerson
As the fourth High Level Forum on aid effectiveness (HLF-4) draws nearer, this Background Note outlines the changing global development context and discusses results to date in implementing the aid effectiveness (AE) agenda. The paper then moves on to identify major remaining challenges in implementing the aid effectiveness agenda and details six suggested action areas.
8 pages
Published by ODI as part of the ODI Background Notes series.
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ODI Briefing Papers 70, November 2011

Authors: Marcus Manuel, Maia King, Alastair McKechnie
This ODI Briefing Paper looks at the step-change required to improve financial flexibility, accountability and predictability in fragile states.
Paperback, 4 pages
Published by ODI as part of the ODI Briefing Papers series. This resources was an output of the following ODI project: Budget Strengthening Initiative .
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Area Volume 43, Issue 4, November 2011

Authors: Jonathan Glennie
In this journal article, Jonathan Glennie explores the UK Coalitions's record on international development and says that whilst the Conservative party’s philosophies of international development have matured, there remains, however, the lingering concern that the instinct to place market-based measures of profitability and value for money at the forefront of aid assessments may still derail their best intentions when it comes to international development.
2 pages
Published by Wiley-Blackwell as part of the series.
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ODI Background Notes, November 2011

Authors: Andrew Rogerson
This Background Note probes some of the limits of the term ‘catalytic aid’ – what precisely do we currently mean by catalytic aid? How might we recognise it and make it operational? And what aid objectives and instruments prevalent today would a resolute shift to catalytic aid allocation principles exclude?
8 pages
Published by ODI as part of the ODI Background Notes series.
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Research reports and studies, October 2011

Authors: Leni Wild, Lisa Denney, Alina Rocha Menocal, and Matthew Geddes
This report provides an analysis of how Japan's development model and ODA approach is being applied to Africa and how this compares to the priorities and approaches of other donors.
39 pages
Published by ODI This resources was an output of the following ODI project: Informing the future of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) .
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ODI Project Briefings 63, September 2011

Authors: Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Heidi Tavakoli
To date the scope, coverage and spending on social protection in Nigeria have been low. This Project Briefing analyses whether it is possible to create fiscal space for social protection in Nigeria.
4 pages
Published by ODI as part of the ODI Project Briefings series. This resources was an output of the following ODI project: Social Protection Diagnostic and Forward Agenda UNICEF Nigeria .
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