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How to make aid work

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Around a fifth of the population of the world, or 1.2 billion people, survive on under $1 per day, and the Cologne Initiative aims to increase and speed up debt relief for poorer countries. The plan is geared to Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, or HIPCS. Initial efforts to tackle the problem were too slow. There should be 33 countries benefiting from the new plan, compared with 26 countries benefiting from the old plan. Aid should be geared to countries with sound economic policies if it is to be effective

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
External debt relief, Debt relief

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On top of the world

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Global economic summits tend not to achieve a great deal. The achievements of the Group of 7 meeting with Russia in Japan in Jul 2000 are assessed in detail.

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000
Editorial, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Group of 7

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Gifts with strings attached

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There is a need for aid for poorer countries to be free of ties involving the giver providing services or goods.

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000

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Subjects list: Economic aspects, Developing countries, International relations, Industrialized countries, Economic assistance, Foreign economic assistance
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