20 percent were underweight (weight for age), each of these levels categorized as high severity by the World Health …, the World Bank, and eventually others. This report assesses the performance of three projects: (1) the NEP, (2) the …

Barber B. Conable, President of the World Bank Group addressed the topic of Australian International Development at the … single word: development, the priority business of the World Bank, the oldest, largest and still the most effective …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about the forces in the world that are making us fundamentally … rethink the approach to development at the World Bank Group. He described three paths. The first path is to accelerate … and tackling corruption, by accelerating infrastructure investment, by lowering real and perceived risks for private …

George D. Woods, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about the proposal to markedly increase the funds available … to the World Bank's affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA) and the financial resources going to the … lost, if leaders in these regions lose heart, then the prospect is for deterioration in world affairs that in the end will …

This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 … the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on … Policy" department of the World Bank, also increase the chance of success. Conversely, a weaker set of supported reforms in …