Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Summary of Findings and Recommendations -- 1 The PRSP Initiative: Objectives and Relevance -- What Is the PRSP Initiative? -- What Is This Review Evaluating? -- An Assessment of Relevance -- 2 Implementation of...

Middle income countries (MICs) are facing rapidly evolving development challenges as their economist mature and integrate into the global economy. As a group, the 86 MICs account for about one -- fifth of world output, and their per capita income has grown by almost 4 percent annually since...

Research in recent years on aid effectiveness shows that significant obstacles in fragile states - insecurity, poor governance and weak implementation capacity - usually prevent aid from achieving the desired results in these environments. This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness...

Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations assess changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention. Both innovations in statistical methods and the demand for evaluations that can...

This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank?s 2001 gender strategy and the results thereof. Covering the period fiscal 2002-08, the evaluation finds that the Bank made progress in gender integration compared with an earlier IEG evaluation on gender covering the period fiscal...

Erfolg bzw. Mißerfolg von Entwicklungsprojekten hängt wesentlich von den beteiligten Verwaltungseinheiten ab, die die Entwicklungspolitik inhaltlich ausgestalten und konkret umsetzen. Dies gilt für die Geber- und Empfängerseite gleichermaßen. Am Beispiel der Kleingewerbeförderung von...