Many scholars are more and more asking whether indeed IOs are agents of public goods or that they were founded and developed to gain autonomy and compete with traditional nation‐state sources of social power. While this is an important question to keep in mind, for this presentation, I am...

This Good Practice Note aims to assist Task Teams of the World Bank and their colleagues in the client countries develop and implement effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for agricultural research and extension projects and programs. The chapters in this Note provide a step-by-step...

In the current context of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, development resources are likely to be getting scarcer. Resources for development research are too. The set of circumstances generating the resource scarcity is also putting pressure on development gains. More than ever...