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After All These Years
This is the combined life story of Mick Foster and Tony Allen, revealing how these most unlikely of stars toured the world and entered the record books. A charming narrative told with heaps of Celtic charm, it is filled with nostalgic reminiscences about growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s and 60s, and spans the breadth of their long career, including appearing on Top of the Pops alongside Bob Geldof and being feted by Terry Wogan, and the extraordinary moment when they found themselves at the very top of the charts, beating Take That to the number-one slot.
Irish Angels
On the 14th September 1992, world-famous Irish entertainers Foster & Allen performed to a full house in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. On that same night, a little girl fell in love... No one, especially the then 10-year-old Kristie, could foresee the amazing journey that she was to embark upon after seeing these two men - whose music she had once despised - perform in her home town for the first time. Having been greatly inspired by the duo's legendary sound - especially by the accordion music of Mick Foster, Kristie went on to enjoy a wonderful Irish dancing career, reaching the Top 10 in both her state and her country; her "Irish angels" never too far from her mind whenever she performed on stage. This is Kristie's story... living proof that dreams do and can come true. PLEASE CLICK THE PREVIEW BUTTON TO READ AN EXCERPT.
Reinventing Foreign Aid
Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan. The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such unlikely policy experts as George Clooney, Alicia Keyes, Elton John, Angelina Jolie, and Bono. And yet accompanying the call for more foreign aid is an almost universal discontent with the effectiveness of the existing aid system. In Reinventing Foreign Aid, development expert William Easterly has gathered top scholars in the field to discuss how to improve foreign aid. These authors, Easterly points out, are not claiming ...
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Budgeting for Effectiveness in Rwanda
Budgeting for Effectiveness in Rwanda: From Reconstruction to Reform is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. This paper reviews Rwanda's general health budget support relevance, rationale, and outstanding challenges by providing a historical background of budget support, assessing progress in budget support-related processes and practices, reviewing Rwanda's economic and structural reforms and budget support predictability trends, and assessing the net resources available to the government of Rwanda. In this context, the paper reviews resource allocations and spend...
Drug War
Drug War is a landmark modern history: the first ever full account of the United Kingdom’s fight against the illegal importation of drugs. Packed with remarkable revelations and thrilling anecdotes, it tells for the first time the story of the high-level traffickers who drugged Britain, and the secretive organisation that tried to stop them: the Investigation Division of HM Customs and Excise. The ID’s elite officers waged a fifty-year battle to stem the tide of cannabis, cocaine and heroin arriving by land, air and sea, and to track, arrest and prosecute the smuggling gangs, both organised and chaotic, who turned an amateur pastime into a multi-billion-pound trade. The result of more th...
The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment
The evaluation finds that the content of the World Bank s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) is largely relevant for growth and poverty reduction in the sense that it maps well with the determinants of growth and poverty reduction identified in the economics literature. However, some CPIA criteria need to be revised (in particular trade and finance), and one needs to be added (assessment of disadvantaged socio-economic groups). Second, the evaluation finds that the CPIA ratings are in general reliable and correlate well with similar indicators. The World Bank s internal review process helps guard against potential biases in having Bank staff rate countries on which their work...
