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01 August 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

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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20 June 2004

Project LINK Meeting Document 2004

New York, 22-24 November 2004 Agenda and me

Project LINK Meeting Document 2004

17 June 2004

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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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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