Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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InfoCotonou 8, ECDPM, 2005. The Cotonou Partnership Agreement emphasises the need to strengthen the Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) as the democratic foundation of ACP-EU partnership. Yet it says little about the role played by national parliaments as an expression of ‘elective democracy’ in...
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Natalie Folster, for CIDA, 2005. This study addresses two key questions: are scholarships and training programs in their various forms effective tools for capacity building?, and what approaches to training are most effective in terms of creating sustainable technical, managerial and institutio...
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id21 Insights no. 59, December 2005. Free access to markets will benefit developing countries as a group. Some large developing countries have the capacity to exploit opportunities arising from global trade reforms. However, the poorest countries may not gain much even from an ambitious Doha Ro...
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Feb 2006N. Leader and P. Colenso, 2005, PDRE Working Paper 5, DFID, 2005. It is becoming increasingly clear that donors need to work more effectively in fragile states where the government cannot, or will not, deliver core functions to the majority of its people, including the poor. This paper describe...
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D. Wheeler et al. (2005) MIT Sloan Management Review. vol. 47(1): 33-40. Based on an analysis of 50 cases of successful sustainable enterprise in developing countries, the authors reveal that they often involve informal networks that include businesses, not-for-profit organizations, local commu...
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Feb 2006T. McKinley, Working Paper 10, UNDP International Poverty Centre, November 2005. This paper examines the validity of the claim that ‘scaling up’ ODA in developing countries will cause ‘Dutch Disease’ effects that slow growth and human development. The most common concerns are increased inflatio...
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N. Kakwani et al., Working Paper 9, UNDP International Poverty Centre, 2005. This study provides an ex-ante assessment of the implementation of a cash transfer programme conditional on school attendance in 15 sub-Saharan African countries. Conditional cash transfer programmes have been tried in...
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M. van Eckert, GTZ/BMZ, 2005. This paper summarizes the observations and experiences of 26 PRSP processes supported by the German Development Cooperation in order to contribute to the overall PRSP review. The study was to identify promising ways to further improve and sustain the PRSP processes...
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T. Harford and M. Klein, Public Policy for the Private Sector, no.291,World Bank, 2005. Many studies have found that countries with abundant natural resources grow more slowly than those without – a phenomenon often known as the ‘resource curse’ or the ‘curse of oil’. Some development specialis...
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UNDP-CSO, 2005. The experiences presented in this report underscore the critical importance for UNDP and other international organizations to engage with civil society actors at all levels in preventing violent conflict and rebuilding peace. In many cases, the credibility and effectiveness demo...