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"The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that political and strategic factors play a crucial...
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In the GLDN seminar, the recovery procedures in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Asian tsunami were discussed. This introduction to Catastrophe Risk Financing Frameworks seminar provided participants with an understanding of catastrophe risk financing frameworks. In addition, it...
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large program of support to the country. The key messages of the evaluation are: • While World Bank Group strategy has been … inadequate human resources planning on the civilian side. To enhance program effectiveness, the evaluation recommends that the …
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first-of-its-kind evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank's past decentralization efforts in a systematic …
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evaluation which covers the period fiscal 2002-08, finds that the Bank made progress in gender integration compared with an … earlier Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation on gender covering the period fiscal 1990-99. Gender integration into …. With regard to outcomes, detailed reviews were undertaken in 12 focus countries, and the evaluation finds that Bank support …
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The Biennial Report on Operations Evaluation (BROE) in International Finance Corporation (IFC) assesses the adequacy …, coverage, and quality of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in IFC and makes recommendations for improvements going forward. It … covers IFC management's M&E of its performance and also IEG's independent evaluation activities. In the last three years, IFC …
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The Bank Group's lending and non-lending support for environmental sustainability has increased and improved over the past 15 years. But the institution needs to raise the priority it accords to this area of rising concern, strengthen internal cooperation, and work more effectively with its...
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