ELDIS DEVELOPMENT REPORTER
No 5, January 2000
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Here is our selection of the latest additions to
ELDIS, the gateway to information on development.
All documents are available free on the Internet (or
you can try our email-only option).
OUR EDITOR'S SELECTION FROM ITEMS ADDED THIS MONTH
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Full Internet access details below. Each item
includes links to further Internet materials on the
same subject.
1. Social funds in stabilisation and adjustment
programmes
2. Trade liberalisation and poverty
3. A review of Danish NGO activities in developing
countries
4. Country experiences with the use and
liberalisation of capital controls
5. Analytical history of Heavily Indebted Poor
Country (HIPC) debt sustainability targets
6. Assessing the poverty and vulnerability impact of
micro-credit in Bangladesh: a case study of BRAC
7. Social impacts of the Asian Financial Crisis in
Thailand
8. Implementing 'market-friendly' land redistribution
in South Africa: lessons from the first five years
9. Navigating gender: a framework and a tool for
participatory development
10. Monitoring and evaluation of participatory
research programmes
11. World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
12. Economic Reconstruction and Development in South
East Europe
13. Pole Microfinancement
14. Global Development Network (GDN)
The links below lead onto the documents. You can also
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ACCESS DETAILS:
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1. Social funds in stabilization and adjustment
programmes
Cornia, G.A. / World Institute for Development
Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) 1999
Why Social Fund programmes are not the panacea to
reduce poverty during the adjustment process and what
can be done to improve their effectiveness
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/socfund.htm
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2. Trade liberalisation and poverty
Two papers from the Overseas Development Institute
(ODI) and Global Development Network (GDN) 1999
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/winter.htm
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3. A review of Danish NGO activities in developing
countries
Oakley, P. / Danida 1999
Discusses suggestion that whilst Danish NGO supported
projects have had some immediate impact on problems,
long-term impact is currently more difficult to prove
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/danngo.htm
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4. Country experiences with the use and
liberalisation of capital controls
Ariyoshi, A.; Habermeier, K.; Laurens, B.;
Otker-Robe, I.; Canales-Kriljenko, J.I.; Kirilenko,
A. / International Monetary Fund (IMF) 1999
Country-based evidence now suggests that controlling
both the inflows and outflows of capital has, to
varying degrees, helped countries to protect
themselves from the effects of the Asian financial
crisis.
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/imfcap.htm
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5. Analytical history of Heavily Indebted Poor
Country (HIPC) debt sustainability targets
Hjertholm, P. / Development Economic Research Group
(DERG), 1999
Questions the accuracy of World Bank indicators of
debt-distress and their use as HIPC sustainability
targets
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/hipctarg.htm
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6. Assessing the poverty and vulnerability impact of
micro-credit in Bangladesh: a case study of BRAC
Zaman, H./ World Bank 1999
What effects have one of the largest providers of
micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh had on
poverty?
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/brac.htm
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7. Social impacts of the Asian Financial Crisis in
Thailand
World Bank Office, Thailand 1999
Major in-depth survey from the Thailand Social
Monitor
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/thaisoc.htm
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8. Implementing 'market-friendly' land
redistribution in South Africa: lessons from
the first five years
Deininger, K; Naidoo. I.; May, J.; Roberts, B.; van
Zyl, J. / Global Development Network (GDN) 1999
Although reforms have been harder to implement than
first thought, they are proving to have positive
effects on land productivity and welfare of the rural
poor.
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/lrefsa.htm
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9. Navigating gender: a framework and a tool for
participatory development
Vainio-Mattila, A. / Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Department for International Development Cooperation,
Finland, 1999
Short manual on applying the often theoretical
understanding of gender issues to practical
development work
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/navgen.htm
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10. Monitoring and evaluation of participatory
research programmes
McAllister, K. / International Development Research
Center, 1999
Two papers: one conceptual, the other practical
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/mcall.htm
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11. World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
UNDP / WIDER (1999)
Dataset of time-series Gini Coefficients and other
measurements
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wiid.htm
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ORGANISATIONS
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12. Economic Reconstruction and Development in South
East Europe
Web site to help donors assess and react to
macroeconomic situations, focusing on Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia,
and Romania, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/recon.htm
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13. Pole Microfinancement
Francophone microfinance site
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/pole.htm
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14. Global Development Network (GDN)
Start-up for World Bank sponsored research network
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/gdn.htm
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