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Community Driven Development : A Vision of Poverty Reduction through Empowerment

World Bank Group - 2016

Poverty has remained stubbornly high in Africa for decades. Top-down plans and donor driven investment programs have been less than successful. Past experience suggests that decentralization will not work without vibrant, participatory communities. And enhanced participation will at some point...

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An Operational Approach to Enhancing Women's and Girls' Empowerment in World Bank Projects

World Bank Group - 2023

Gender equality has long been central to the World Bank's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. More recently, women's and girls' empowerment (WGE) has become a priority in the Africa region in the context of the region's demographic...

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Evaluation Insight Note : Elements that Enhance Institutional Capacity Development in World Bank Projects and Country Partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank Group - 2023

Evaluation Insight Notes (EIN) offer new insights from existing evidence on important strategic and operational issues …. This EIN draws on Independent Evaluation Group evidence to identify lessons for addressing institutional capacity …, corruption, and civil conflict. To help navigate institutional capacity development, this Evaluation Insight Note (EIN) answers …

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World Bank Group Support to Demand-Side Energy Efficiency : An Independent Evaluation March 2, 2023

World Bank Group - 2023

. This evaluation focuses on the World Bank Group's approaches to DSEE and opportunities to scale them up, and proposes four …

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Retention and Expansion of Foreign Direct Investment : Political Risk and Policy Responses

World Bank Group - 2019

Due to its recognized benefits, most countries today regardless of their level of development compete for and dedicate significant resources to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Capturing the full positive spillovers of FDI is a long-term process and requires regulatory certainty and...

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Investment Policy and Promotion Diagnostics and Tools : Maximizing the Potential Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment for Competitiveness and Development

World Bank Group - 2017

This paper presents a bird's eye overview of the investment policy and promotion (IPP) logical framework developed by the trade and competitiveness global practice of the WBG to address the challenge of how countries can use foreign direct investment (FDI) to advance their economic development....

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World Bank Group Approaches to Mobilize Private Capital for Development : An Independent Evaluation

World Bank Group - 2021

Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD) strategy. This evaluation offers IEG's first systematic assessment of the Bank Group … evaluation finds Bank Group PCM approaches to have been relevant to both country and corporate clients, although partially … meeting investor's priorities and expectations. The evaluation finds that PCM approaches are mostly effective in mobilizing …

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Can Interventions Spur Development of the Insurance Sector? : From Examples of World Bank Projects

World Bank Group - 2020

Section one of the paper provides a broad overview of the nature and objectives of the projects. Section two contains an objective view of the impact of FIRST funded projects on the growth in insurance markets as measured by insurance market penetration. Rigorous data analysis was used to...

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Project Development Funds (PDFs)

World Bank Group - 2024

Project development funds (PDFs) are dedicated vehicles that governments establish to systematically support the preparation of public-private partnerships (PPPs). The lack of adequate and consolidated resources to appropriately evaluate and prepare potential PPP projects is a key constraint...

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Jamaica - Early Childhood Development Project : Project Performance Assessment Report

World Bank Group - 2022

performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Quality of monitoring and evaluation was modest. This assessment offers the …

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