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Public-Private Partnerships in Health : World Bank Group Engagement in Health PPPs
Independent Evaluation Group - 2016
Access to essential health services is an important aspect of development. Governments from both developed and …-quality health services by leveraging capital, managerial capacity, and knowhow from the private sector. Originally confined to the … sectors, particularly for delivery of health services. PPPs and other forms of private sector involvement in health are now …
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Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition, and Population : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support since 1997
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
Corporation (IFC) health, nutrition, and population (HNP) strategies to enhance the effectiveness of future support. It covers the … the country level, while that of IFC focuses on the performance of health investments and advisory services before and … after its 2002 health strategy. The themes it covers are drawn from the two strategies and the approaches adopted by …
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Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group's Contributions
Independent Evaluation Group - 2021
when a shock occurs. The 2020 global economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19 serves as a yet another stark reminder … inform the design of future Bank Group strategies, operations, diagnostics, and knowledge products that can help reduce …
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Managing Urban Spatial Growth : World Bank Support to Land Administration, Planning, and Development
Independent Evaluation Group - 2021
Cities will be home to 2 billion new residents by 2045, and the pressure to develop land in and around cities is growing. This will pose a great challenge to lower-income cities since they tend to grow through slums and other informal settlements. Slum residents have inadequate and inequitable...
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The Natural Resource Degradation and Vulnerability Nexus : An Evaluation of the World Bank's Support for Sustainable and Inclusive Natural Resource Management (2009-19)
Independent Evaluation Group - 2021
Many of the world's poor people depend on natural resources for their well-being. Four-fifths of the world's poor people live in rural areas, and most rural poor people depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. The renewable natural resources on which poor people depend are increasingly...
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Mobilizing Technology for Development : An Assessment of World Bank Group Preparedness
Independent Evaluation Group - 2021
Disruptive and transformative technologies (DTT) have far-reaching implications for development. Traditional development models are being disrupted by the accelerating pace of technological change and the convergence of multiple technologies, among other things. Recognizing the implications of...
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Tunisia Country Program Evaluation FY2005-13 : Evaluation of the World Bank Group Program
Independent Evaluation Group - 2014
IEG's Country Program Evaluation (CPE) covers the period FY05-13. The period spans three World Bank Group country strategies and one progress report. It also covers the last years of the Ben Ali regime and the transition to a new political dispensation following the revolution of January 2011....
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Assessing IFC's Poverty Focus and Results
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
Growth is good for the poor, but the impact of growth on poverty reduction depends on both the pace and the pattern of growth. A pattern of growth that enhances the ability of poor women and men to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from growth should not come at the expense of a slower...
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Capturing Technology for Development : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Activities in Information and Communication Technologies, Volume 1. The Evaluation
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
Technological innovation drives economic progress. Information and communication technologies (ICT) can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this potential depends on an enabling environment for their production, diffusion, and use. Otherwise, technology can widen rather than narrow...
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Capturing Technology for Development : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Activities in Information and Communication Technologies, Volume 2. Appendixes
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
Technological innovation drives economic progress. Information and communication technologies (ICT) can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this potential depends on an enabling environment for their production, diffusion, and use. Otherwise, technology can widen rather than narrow...
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