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Development challenges in sub-Saharan Africa and post-conflict countries (CDP Policy Note 2005)

Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind other regions in achieving the development goals. Success largely depends on countries themselves owning, planning and executing the necessary policies and programmes. Government's capacity needs to be enhanced, and support from the international community is required. Both the quantity and the quality of aid need to be improved. Countries recovering from conflict face additional challenges. The Committee proposes that a monitoring unit be established within the United Nations to identify those countries most at risk from conflict and that a UN post-conflict reconstruction facility be created to serve as a prompt-response instrument for donor coordination.
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World Economic and Social Survey 2005

World Economic and Social Survey 2005

Financing for Development
World Economic and Social Survey 2005
World Economic and Social Survey 2005 Fench

World Economic and Social Survey 2005 Fench

Financing for Development
World Economic and Social Survey 2005 Fench
Poverty reduction and good governance

Poverty reduction and good governance (CDP Policy Note 2004)

Achieving poverty reduction in the least developed countries will require the mobilization of substantial financial resources. At the country level it will depend on (a) improved budgetary management and revenue collection and enhanced private savings and investment opportunities; (b) the generation of foreign exchange, through increased exports and remittances; (c) the ability, in partnership with donors, to reduce existing debt burdens while increasing the quantity, quality and effectiveness of new aid flows; and (d) the ability to attract private capital (investment and commercial inflows) and to reverse capital flight where it has occurred. In designing institutions for good governance…
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Innovative approaches to domestic resource mobilization in selected LDCs, by Samuel Wangwe and Prosper Charle (CDP Background Paper No. 6)

This paper examines innovative approaches to domestic resource mobilization in selected Least Developed Countries. It covers various aspects of domestic resource mobilization with focus on the linkages to poverty reduction and growth. The areas addressed in this paper include: financial sector reform policies for growth and poverty reduction, Microfinancing, taxation for growth and poverty reduction, management of domestic debt, government spending targeted to crowd in private savings and investment (including public-private partnerships), and mobilization of private capita, including reversal of capital flight and more innovative and active participation in the international trade.
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World Economic Situation and Prospects 2004

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2004

Many of the forces responsible for dramatic growth in the previous decade are now absent or not strong enough to produce such robust performance. While global trade is projected by the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2004 to grow by 7
World Economic Situation and Prospects 2004
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New approaches to debt relief and debt sustainability in LDCs, by Olav Bjerkholt (CDP Background Paper No. 5)

The aim of this paper is to summarize for discussion purposes arguments related to the debt crisis of poor developing countries and the attempts to cope with it through the HIPC Initiative.
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Project LINK Meeting Document 2004

Project LINK Meeting Document 2004

New York, 22-24 November 2004 Agenda and me
Project LINK Meeting Document 2004
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Commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction: methodological issues in the evaluation of progress at the national and local levels, by Suchitra Punyaratabandhu (CDP Background Paper No. 4)

This report was prepared to evaluate progress towards good governance in the context of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The first part of the report reviews the concept of good governance as it has evolved over the past 15 years. Key defining properties of the concept of good governance are presented. The second part of the report examines current efforts to measure governance. As might be expected, different working definitions have led to the specification of different sets of indicators and indices of governance. The third part briefly reviews studies on governance that examine the relationship between good governance and other desired outcomes, such as poverty…
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The poverty reduction challenge in LDCs, by Al Binger (CDP Background Paper No. 3)

CDP Background Paper No. 3
By Al Binger This is a report on resource mobilization for poverty eradication in the least?developed countries. The first part of the?report provides an overview of the current challenges faced by the LD
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