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Partners in Development: Report of the Commission on International Development
Fred R. von der Mehden,Lester B. Pearson +1 more
- Vol. 23, Iss: 1, pp 213
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1997
TL;DR: The 1999 Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, the eleventh anniversary, was held at the Bank on April 28-30, 1999 as discussed by the authors, which focused on three trends of development: 1) the emerging international financial architecture; 2) challenges to social development; and 3) lessons from a decade of transition.
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CONTESTED TERRAIN: Mining and the Environment
TL;DR: A review of mining, development, and environment can be found in this article, which identifies a significant broadening over time in the scope of the environment question as it relates to mining, from concerns about landscape aesthetics and pollution to ecosystem health, sustainable development and indigenous rights.
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The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid
TL;DR: The environment that created aid bureaucracies led those organizations to define their output as money disbursed rather than service delivered, produce many low-return observable outputs (glossy reports and "frameworks") and few high-return less observable activities like ex-post evaluation, engage in obfuscation, spin control, and amnesia exhibiting little learning from the past, and put enormous demands on scarce administrative skills in poor countries.
Policy and Practice Global public-private partnerships: part I - a new development in health?
TL;DR: The proliferation of public-private partnerships is rapidly reconfiguring the international health landscape as discussed by the authors, and the changing nature of partnership, and discusses the definitional and conceptual ambiguities surrounding the term.
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Are Aid Agencies Improving
TL;DR: The record of the aid agencies over time seems to indicate weak evidence of progress over time in response to learning from experience, new knowledge, or changes in political climate as mentioned in this paper, which suggests an unchanged status quo, lack of response to new knowledge and repetition of past mistakes.