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This strategy for making development Climate-Resilient in Sub-Saharan Africa is the World Bank's operational response … to climate variability and change on the continent. Grounded in a climate risk review of the Africa Region's sustainable … development portfolio, it adds the climate change dimension to the Region's development strategy and business plan, the Africa …
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"The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of development. They then use these models to assess the...
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Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a prominent role in conflict-affected and fragile states. In the absence of capable or credible public institutions due to conflict or weak policy environments, CSOs tend to substitute for public institutions and become primary providers of basic social...
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The country study follows a framework that examines three dimensions of capacity building in the public sector: (1) institutional capacity, the framework of goals, incentives, rewards, and sanctions within which organizations, groups, and individuals operate; (2) organizational capacity, groups...
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-Saharan Africa was supportive of growth, with monetary policy focused on managing inflation and fiscal policy focused on pro …
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