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The World Bank has helped define expenditure reform in 83 countries from 1979 to 1994 through 219 operations. Refrom efforts, through conditions for loans and credits, have focused on reducing and restructuring capital expenditures, reducing subsidies, reforming public employment, cutting the...
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This collection of papers on different aspects and examples of participatory development represents some of the many outputs from a recent Bankwide learning process on participatory development. The concept of participation is defined as "a process through which stakeholders influence and share...
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This paper examines the methodologies for project evaluation that, in principle, have been adopted and are stylized by the World Bank.
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This discussion paper: a) proposes a new approach of targeted collaboration among different sectors; b) devises new tools or enhances existing ones to facilitate the contributions of different sectors to help relieve health problems; and c) puts theory into practice through a pilot in Ghana. The...
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Many developing countries sharing water resources of international river basins are facing serious problems in meeting their rapidly growing demandes for domestic, irrigation, industrial, power, and other uses due to riparian conflicts. This report decribes the Bank's successful interventions in...
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Sector Investment Programs (SIPs) are an important initiative for addressing several weaknesses of development aid practice. A SIP is an integrated program comprising a strategy for the sector, a government expenditure program, a management framework providing for common implementation...
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Over the past few years, Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Iraq have emerged as credible sources of financing for low …-income households and entrepreneurs, both underserved by conventional banks. Microfinance services in Iraq, however, are still nascent … and far from meeting their full potential. Similar to many countries in the MENA region, MFIs in Iraq were set up as non …
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The fall 2021 issue of the Iraq Economic Monitor provides an in-depth review of the latest macroeconomic and policy … monitor finds that the economic prospects for Iraq have improved, with GDP projected to grow from 2.6 percent in 2021 to … constraints that impact public service delivery can all materialize anytime to turn the tide as Iraq's recent history has …
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