V P Chintan Memorial Lecture, 30th October 2006, 'The State under neo-liberalism', by Dr. Prabhat Patnaik, Chairman, State Planning Commission, Kerala. Organized by Indian School of Social Sciences, Chennai. (Portions - less than 5 minutes or so didn't record at all - after around 52 minutes from the beginning)
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'The Sourcebook is a product of the OECD-DAC Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results, a group of bilateral and multilateral donors – and, more recently, of partner country representatives – that are working to promote the implementation of the Paris commitments.
'Most of all, the Sourcebook is intended to be a living document. As new good practices emerge and more countries and agencies gain experience, new case studies are intended to be added, continually updating the Sourceb more...
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'This publication presents the findings of the Initiative’s 2005-2006 thematic review on curbing corruption in public procurement. It highlights trends, approaches and achievements across 25 jurisdictions in Asia and the Pacific in a comparative overview that also presents a framework to guide policy development. It also contains reports on individual jurisdictions that provide details on existing policies in national contexts and on key elements of legal and institutional frameworks.'
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The document lists the principles involved in 'Good Procurement Practices.' Moving a step further, the paper also covers various Procurement forms and suggests ways of being transparent.
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COMPENDIUM OF DONOR REPORTS ON IMPLEMENTING THE PARIS DECLARATION-Vol .1: SUMMARY OF EMERGING TRENDS
'This reporting exercise is an integral part of the contributions to the Third High Level forum on Aid Effectiveness, to be held in Accra, Ghana on 2-4 September 2008. It provides, in particular, an opportunity for agencies to assess how far the aid effectiveness agenda has been mainstreamed into agencies’ activities and to identify the key advances and challenges ahead. This compendium of donor reports on implementing the Paris Declaration (PD) provides a source of information and innovative more...
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'Australia has made significant progress in implementing core aid effectiveness principles, including those captured in the Paris Declaration. While the rate of progress since signing the Paris Declaration in 2005 is impressive, more innovation is required to improve the rate of implementation of the Paris principles, and to adapt the Paris principles to specific country circumstances. Australia remains committed to intensifying its efforts to pursue core aid effectiveness principles as a comple more...
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'How effective is aid at helping countries meet their own development objectives? Some of the answers can be found in this survey report. The 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration assesses progress made in 54 partner countries and helps us understand the challenges in making aid more effective at advancing development. The findings are clear: progress is being made, but not fast enough. Unless they seriously gear up their efforts, partner countries and their external partners will not more...
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