Telling Our Stories: Drawing Policy Lessons from Development Experience
This Canadian Council for International Cooperation publication is a collection of policy lessons that attempt to convert field experience into policy knowledge. Includes a chapter contributed by World Vision Canada called Poverty Reduction Strategies and Donor Country Plans: Do they add up to aid effectiveness?

PRSPs and Donor Country Strategies: Do They Add Up to Effective Aid?
This paper is based on the experience of World Vision staff members with poverty reduction strategies in four of CIDA's core countries: Ethiopia, Mozambique, Senegal, and Tanzania. (Executive Summary)

Food Security Policy Group Submission to IPR
A food security perspective on Canada's international trade and development assistance policies. This publication proposes that Canada adopt a human rights framework in order to promote food security as a key priority in international policy. (French)

Risky Development: Export Concentration, Foreign Investment, and Policy Conditionality
This publication examines the links between trade, growth, and poverty. While there may be costs and risks associated with seeking to diversify a country's economic base through an active industrial policy, there are also costs and risks associated with specialization.

Fair Trade for Hungry Farmers
This policy statement outlines five key proposals that Canada should support in trade negotiations to bring about fair trade to small farmers in developing countries.

The IMF and Civil Society: Deepening the Dialogue
This discussion paper argues that the International Monetary Fund has significant reasons for strengthening the quality and depth of its engagement with civil society (the broader, informed public), especially at the national level.

Promoting Growth for Poverty Reduction: The Role of IMF Lending Advice
This policy paper looks at the role of IMF lending advice in achieving poverty reduction. Addressing problems such as inequality, child labour, environmental sustainability, and HIV and AIDS can all have a positive impact on economic growth and poverty reduction.

Doing the Rights Thing? The World Bank and the Human Rights of People Living in Poverty
This briefing paper argues that the World Bank can significantly improve its ability to impact issues of economic growth and poverty reduction by accepting the positive role that national human rights objectives can play in development.

Masters of Their Own Development: PRSPs and the Prospects for the Poor
This publication documents World Vision's experience in working with poverty reduction strategies at the local level. Case studies of Senegal, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Bolivia, Honduras, and Nicaragua are included.

World Vision Gives a Mixed Review to Federal Budget-2005
While some elements of the 2005 federal budget are positive, it falls short of meeting Canada's commitment to long-standing promises.

Trade For Development: Making the WTO Work for the Poor
This paper looks at the interactions between trade and development in poorer countries, and some of the ways in which those countries participate in international trade negotiations through the World Trade Organization.