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OED Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process : Albania Case Study
Economics Research, World Bank Group; Operations …
This report analyzes the experience of Albania with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process. The focus of the report is on evaluating the performance of the World Bank in supporting the PRSP initiative, not on appraising the authorities policies. The main emphasis of the report is on...
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The Logic of Renewal : Evaluation at the World Bank (1992-2002)
Picciotto, Robert - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Modern psychology confirms that in order to adapt to the demands of a changing, sometimes hostile environment, and organisms must be able to profit from past experience. Therefore the textbook definition of learning is in three parts: (i) to find out how the operating environment works; (ii) to...
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The World Bank Group Goals : End Extreme Poverty and Promote Shared Prosperity
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank Group
Although poverty has declined rapidly over the past three decades, humanity still faces urgent and complex challenges. The World Bank Group has established ambitious but achievable goals to anchor its overarching mission and to galvanize international and national efforts in this endeavor....
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An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance to China for Poverty Reduction in the 1990s
Khan, A.R. - Economics Research, World Bank Group
This paper attempts an evaluation of World Bank s assistance to China for poverty reduction during the 1990s. It begins with a summary of China's performance in poverty reduction during the decade as a backdrop to the subject in section two. Section three, presents an analysis of the causes why...
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Summaries of Ten Country Case Studies Undertaken as Part of the IEO Evaluation of the PRSP/PRGF and OED Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank; …
, Guinea, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Vietnam conducted for the IMF's independent evaluation …
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OED Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process : Cambodia Case Study
Economics Research, World Bank Group; Operations …
This report analyzes the experience of Cambodia with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process3. The focus of the report is on evaluating the performance of the World Bank in supporting the PRSP initiative, not on appraising the authorities policies. Given the early stage of the PRS...
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The United Republic of Tanzania : Evaluation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Process and Arrangements under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
Economics Research, World Bank Group; IMF Independent …; …
in Tanzania was jointly undertaken by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank and the Independent … report is laid out as follows: section two provides a background to the poverty situation in Tanzania as well as the economic … Tanzania, starting with a look at the relevance of the process to the key development challenges facing the country and then …
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The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and Driven Development : Engaging the Poor through CBD and CDD Initiatives--A Brazil Country Study with a Focus on the N...
Pozzoni, Barbara - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Since the 1980s and early 1990s, the World Bank has been supporting projects that involve communities own development. This has been largely manifested in the design and implementation of community-based development (CBD) and community-driven development (CDD) initiatives, with the latter...
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Program Classification for Performance-Based Budgeting
Robinson, Marc - Economics Research, World Bank Group
This guide provides practical guidance on program classification, that is, on how to define programs and their constituent elements under a program budgeting system. Program budgeting is the most widespread form of performance budgeting as applied to the government budget as a whole. The...
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Ending Poverty and Hunger by 2030
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank Group
To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day, everywhere; that can raise real incomes of the poorest people; that can provide safe food and adequate nutrition; and that can better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently,...
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