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Whose Hunger? : Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

Edkins, Jenny - 2000

We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. Jenny Edkins responds to the contrary: famine in the contemporary world is not the...

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Gender and Development : An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 2002-08

Bank, World - 2010

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...

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Development as Leadership-led Change : A Report for the Global Leadership Initiative

Bank, The World - 2010

Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence. This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global...

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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2009, Global : People, Politics, and Globalization

Lin, Justin Yifu - 2010

participants from developing countries, think tanks, NGOs, and international institutions. These papers concern: Trade and economic … performance: does Africa's fragmentation matter?; Protectionist Policies and Manufacturing Trade Flows in Africa; Criss …-Crossing Globalization: The Phenomenon of Uphill Skills flows; The Aid-Migration Trade off; Are Remittances More Effective than Aid to …

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Gender Dimensions of Investment Climate Reform : A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners

Simavi, Sevi - 2010

) trade logistics, (iv) special economic zones, (v) alternative dispute resolution, (vi) investment policy and promotion and … -- Annex B Sample Questionnaire for Business Owners -- Notes -- Module 4: Trade Logistics -- Summary -- Why Gender Matters …

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Female Genital Cutting, Women's Health, and Development : The Role of the World Bank

Rogo, Khama - 2007

This strategy paper provides a comprehensive understanding of the issue of female genital mutilation/cutting-scope,challenges, opportunities, best practices, and how communities, development agencies, and national governments can work together to eliminate the practices on the ground. The World...

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Climate Change and the World Bank Group : Phase I I - The Challenge of Low-Carbon Development

Bank, World - 2004

This study from the Independent Evaluation Group draws lessons for development and climate change mitigation from the World Bank Group's far-reaching portfolio of projects in energy, forestry, transport, coal power, and technology transfer. Reviewing what has worked, what hasn?t, and why, the...

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The global economic crisis and the developing world : implications and prospects for recovery and growth

Deshpande, Ashwini (ed.) - 2012 - 1. publ.

in addition to global trade forcing many governments, developed and developing, to impose debilitating austerity measures … insights into the origins of the contemporary crisis as well as detailed analyses of the financial and trade dimensions …

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The Aid Trap : Hard Truths About Ending Poverty

Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2009

Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector& mdash;the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor...

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Housing : Socioeconomic, Availability, and Development Issues

Hammond, Edward P - 2009

Growth of a Small Open Interregional Economy -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Multi-Region Trade Model with Capital …

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