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AbstractDuring the 1990s Vietnam's economic reforms led to rapid growth and dramatic poverty reduction, attracting more donors and higher levels of aid. As this happened, bottlenecks and the transaction costs of aid became more apparent and led to efforts at harmonisation. However, the task has been complicated by donors' distrust of government's low standards of transparency and accountability but respect for its poverty reduction performance and macroeconomic management record. As a result donors have concentrated first on harmonisation with each other while supporting institutional reforms. They have done this through the unusually extensive donor‐government consultative machinery, with its biannual Consultative Group (CG) meetings and a large number of sectoral and topical partnership groups. The article assesses the role this machinery plays, concluding that its vitality results from mutual commitment and its unusual extent from the number of sectors addressed. The collaboration between government and donors may face greater challenges in the future if economic growth slows, the reform agenda stalls or inequality increases. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This paper was prepared in response to an invitation from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development (MAFWARD) to examine certain issues related to the role of the Ministry and the resources available to it. The five sections cover the following topics: national coordination of rural development; planning and coordination within MAFWARD; role and functions of the Directorate of Rural Development; implications of resource constraints for agriculture and rural development; some aspects of aid management in relation to agriculture. (DÜI-Hff)

This paper describes the key features of Botswana's planning/budget links, summarises their advantages and suggests ways in which this issue might be followed up by Namibia. (DÜI-Hff)

This book presents the edited papers and proceedings of a workshop organised by NEPRU on 12 and 13 July 1990 in association with the National Planning Commission. The workshop provided a forum for political leaders and senior officials to discuss the problems and opportunities of development aid as seen from the development country government perspective of Namibia. Included amongst the principal themes addressed were the real development impact of aid; donor influence on national policy-making; tied aid and conditionality; the characteristics of the principal donor institutions, multilateral, bilateral and NGOs; aid administration in the recipient country; and the 'nuts and bolts' of aid coordination. (DÜI-Hff)