This 2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE): The World Bank's Contributions to Poverty Reduction, looks at the growth and poverty reduction experience of client countries. It assesses the extent to which Bank interventions have contributed to growth and poverty reduction and the...

Brazil entered the 1990s suffering the consequences of a lost decade of high inflation and slow growth. Between 1980 and 1990, per capita income declined in real terms, and the share of the population in extreme poverty rose from 16.5 to 19 percent -and from 36 to 42 percent in the Northeast....

"This is the first ADR assessment of UNDP's contribution to Armenia, and it covers the period 2005-2013 ... The collapse of the Soviet Union led to profound economic and societal changes in Armenia. Since the country's independence in 1991, UNDP's programme in Armenia has been closely aligned...

"The Assessment of Development Results is one of the main tasks of the Independent Evaluation Office. It seeks to analyse systematically and independently the progress of key UNDP programmes in countries that receive its support. This ADR was carried out in close collaboration with the Algerian...