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Poverty-oriented Planning and Reporting for Development Partnerships

2012/01 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Author: Ellen Kallinowsky

Development partnerships are projects between private companies, development agencies, government bodies and civil society actors. They combine the particular strengths and resources of each of the partners involved in order to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development.

Development partnerships involving the private sector are viewed as particularly important for achieving overarching poverty reduction objectives such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and encouraging business to play a stronger development role. This document provides a practical and user friendly tool for poverty-oriented planning and reporting of development partnerships. It has been developed to assist partnership managers to understand the necessity and rationale for analysing poverty impacts and guide them through such an analysis. With the help of this tool, partnership managers can ensure that their partnership activities consider and adopt a pro-poor orientation.

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EU Development Cooperation after the Lisbon Treaty. People, Institutions and Global Trends

2011/12 | European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); Authors: Jeske van Seters and Henrike Klavert

In the current changing context, the EU is struggling to remain a key player on the international scene. With the Lisbon Treaty, which came into force in December 2009, the EU aspired to reshape its external action. The aim is for the Lisbon Treaty to lead to a more coherent, efficient and visible EU in the world.

The Lisbon Treaty has considerable consequences for the conduct of EU external policy and therefore affects the EU's relations with developing countries. Almost two years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, this paper examines the current state of play as regards the implications for EU development cooperation. Its purpose is to assess if small steps are made towards a stronger EU contribution to international development and poverty eradication. The analysis is guided by a select number of criteria: the letter of the Lisbon Treaty, leadership in EU institutions, organisational measures taken, specific activities undertaken and expected impact.

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Lessons from Korea to Africa: Leaders, Politics and Developmental States

2011/11 | Centre of African and Development Studies (CESA); Author: Luis Mah

A recent series of studies have been dealing with the dynamics behind the building of developmental states in Africa. This working paper is a contribution for that debate by looking at the experience of the Korean developmental state and the lessons that Africa can learn from this Asian country's experience seen as an outstanding model of economic development.

Despite poor resource endowment and a large population, a colonial legacy, the devastation following a civil war, persistent political instability, and the lingering military confrontation with her northern neighbour, Korea's role in the international economic system has rapidly increased in importance since the 1960s. For nearly five decades, Korea has achieved a remarkable economic performance that transformed the country from a typical case of a developing nation trapped in a "vicious circle of underdevelopment", into one of the largest economies in the late 1990s.

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