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29 November 2006

2006 Vulnerability Profiles

Samoa

2006 Vulnerability Profiles

16 June 2006

Policy responses to economic vulnerability, by Willene Johnson (CDP Background Paper No. 9)

The present paper reviews policy efforts to advance growth and development in the least developed countries, in particular those efforts aimed at promoting well-being by reducing vulnerability to economic shocks. The paper draws on empirical research analysing the relationships between economic vulnerability, growth and policy. Given that domestic policy efforts are weakened by the shocks that characterize vulnerability, the international community has an important role to play in countries.

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16 September 2004

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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16 August 2004

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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16 July 2004

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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16 May 2004

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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29 November 2003

2003 Vulnerability Profiles

Cabo Verde

2003 Vulnerability Profiles