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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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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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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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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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low income countries. This volume contains summaries of ten country case studies namely, Albania, Cambodia, Ethiopia …
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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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This evaluation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) processes in Tanzania was jointly undertaken by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF. The goal of the...
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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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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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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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