Making PRSPs work : can rhetoric and reality coincide? / Alan Whaites -- All for naught? : an analysis of Senegal's PRSP process / Wendy Phillips -- Working towards an Ethiopian PRSP / Joe Muwonge, Beyene Geleta and Simon Heliso -- Process before strategy : planning a less than ideal PRSP for...

São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a small island nation of 215,000 people in the Gulf ofGuinea off the coast of Central Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth. One of Africa's least known countries, its striking volcanic landscape is hometo virgin rainforests with rich...

This is the first Economic Report on Afghanistan by the World Bank in a quarter-century. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of the core challenges that lie ahead for the country and key strategic priorities for national reconstruction. It focuses on the conceptual frameworks,...

The article criticizes the World Bank as overy optimistic concerning its ability to raise the effectiveness of aid by concentrating aid on countries with "good" policies. It is shown that aid flows to the main recipient regions yielded the highest correlation to growth when their magnitudes...