This report draws a range of new analyses and case studies carried out in preparation for the Accra High-Level Forum held in September 2008. It it is organized into four parts. Part 1 examines trends in aid for health from a global perspective, focusing both on how increases in aid finance have...

Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- The World bank and public procurement : an independent evaluation -- Management response -- Chairperson's summary : committee on development effectiveness -- Contents of the full evaluation -- The text of both complete volumes of the evaluation and appendixes...

This book highlights strategies for poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the power of the market mechanism and vigor of the private sector, focusing ODA on a few longer term challenges and leveraging advances in technology to the fullest, and underlining the importance of...