1. Human development and debt overhang 2. Three premises 3. Prospective ai

Danny Cassimon

Jacques Drèze

Lode Berlage

Paul Reding

Abstract: In usability testing of web sites, thinking aloud is a frequently used method. A fundamental discussion, however, about the relation between the use of different variants of thinking aloud and the evaluation goals for this specific medium is still lacking. To lay a foundation for this discussion I analyzed the results of three usability studies in which different thinking aloud tasks were used: a simple searching task, an application task and a prediction task. In the task setting the profile of the web surfer, the communication goal of the web site and other quality aspects are taken into account. The qualitative analysis of these studies shows that the task variation has some influence on the results of usability testing and that, consequently, tasks should be matched with the evaluation goals put forward

Berlage, Lode

Cassimon, Danny

Dr\ue8ze, Jacques

Reding, Paul

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Prospective aid and indebtedness relief: a proposal

Primary needs of human development are not met in poor development countries.Although ambitious goals have been set by the international community to meet specific human development targets by 2015, Official Development Aid is lagging and excessive external debt continues to drain much needed resources from poor countries despite the recent HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Countries)Initiative. This paper outlines a 15-year program for implementing the 2015 Human Development targets while resolving fully the debt overhang problem for a set of 49 poor countries. The proposal requires additional contributions from 23
rich countries amounting to 0.1 of 1% of their GDP over each of the 15y ears. Although only a small part of the effort would take the form of debt cancellation, the outstanding debt of the 49 poor countries would be totally extinct by year
2015. The program, to be implemented in a multilateral framework in which all interested parties have an effective voice, relies on several basic premises: a long term commitment by donors; a fair burden sharing among creditors; a fair distribution of newly available resources among poor countries, heavily indebted or not; a targeting of these resources to human development programs; a conditionality guaranteeing reasonable aid effectiveness

Berlage, Lod

Dreze, Jacques

DIAL UCLouvain

Prospective aid and indebtedness relief: A proposal

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