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The Big Business of Small Enterprises : Evaluation of the World Bank Group Experience with Targeted Support to Small and Medium-Size Enterprises, 2006-12

Bank, World - 2014

The World Bank Group promotes small and medium enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and targeted interventions … business for the World Bank Group, averaging around 3 billion a year in commitments, expenditures, and gross exposure over the …

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The World Bank Group and Public Procurement : An Independent Evaluation

Bank, World - 2015

The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. International prices for food and other agricultural products increased by more than 100 percent between early 2007 and mid-2008. Prices for food cereals more than doubled; and those for rice...

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World Development Report 2015 : Mind, Society, and Behavior

Bank, World - 2014

Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that...

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Global Development Finance 2005, Volume 2 : Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability

Bank, World - 2005

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Methodology -- Sources and definitions -- Country groups -- Regional groups -- Income groups -- Summary tables -- Regional and income group aggregate tables -- Country tables -- Albania -- Algeria -- Angola -- Argentina -- Armenia -- Azerbaijan --...

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World Development Report 2010 : Development and Climate Change

Bank, World - 2009

the Climate for Development -- The case for action -- A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now, act together … ahead to 2050: Which world? -- Focus B: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate -- 3 Managing Land and … Energizing Development without Compromising the Climate -- Balancing competing objectives -- Where the world needs to go …

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Global Monitoring Report 2005 : Millennium Development Goals : From Consensus to Momentum

Bank, World - 2005

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- 1 Overview: Building Momentum toward the Millennium Development Goals -- 2 Spurring and Sustaining Economic Growth -- 3 Scaling Up Service Delivery -- 4...

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Global Development Finance 2009, 2 : Summary and Country Tables

Bank, World - 2009

Global Development Finance-the World Bank's annual report on the external financing of developing countries … flows that are likely to affect the growth prospects of developing countries.Over the past two years, the world has seen …

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Global Monitoring Report 2007 : Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States

Bank, World - 2007

, emerging priorities, and provides a detailed region-by-region picture of performance in the developing regions of the world …

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Global Monitoring Report 2006 : Strengthening Mutual Accountability -- Aid, Trade, and Governance

Bank, World - 2006

This third edition of the Global Monitoring Report examines the commitments and actions of donors, international financial institutions, and developing countries to implement the Millennium Declaration, signed by 189 countries in 2000. Many countries are off track to meet the Millennium...

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Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016 : Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change

Bank, World - 2015

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Overview -- Part I. Monitoring global development progress -- Development progress over the MDG period has been impressive -- Despite solid development gains, significant work remains -- Amid...

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