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(More customer reviews)Can the Poor Influence Policy? is a clear and authoritative review of experience with the major new phenomenon of Participatory Poverty Assesssments (PPAs). Caroline Robb documents the scale and depth of a quiet revolution in thinking and practice with profound implications for development professionalism and policy. She shows how participatory methods and approaches can enable poor people to analyse their realities and express their priorities, and how these can differ from those assumed by policy makers.
It should be read by all who are concerned with policy and practice to reduce poverty. It should inspire many more Governments, donors and NGOs to initiate PPAs and to disseminate and act on the results.
Can the Poor Influence Poverty?, published as it is by the World Bank, is a landmark book. It shows how PPAs have spread, and the potential they have to influence policy. After this book, things should never be the same again, for there will be less excuse than ever for ignoring the realities and priorities of those who are poor and disadvantaged.

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External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users provides clear, up-to-date guidance on the concepts, definitions, and classifications of the gross external debt of the public and private sectors, and on the sources, compilation techniques, and analytical uses of these data. The Guide supersedes the previous international guidance on external debt statistics available in External Debt: Definition, Statistical Coverage, and Methodology (widely known as the Gray Book), which was published in 1988. The Guide's conceptual framework derives from the System of National Accounts, 1993 and the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (also issued in 1993). Preparation of the Guide was undertaken by an Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics, chaired by the IMF, and involving representatives from the BIS, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Central Bank, Eurostat, the OECD, the Paris Club Secretariat, UNCTAD, and the World Bank.

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