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Decentralization in Client Countries : An Evaluation of the World Bank Support, 1990-2007

Bank, World - 2008

The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) assessed the effectiveness of Bank support for decentralization between fiscal 1990 and 2007 in 20 countries, seeking to inform the design and implementation of future support. Given the difficulties of measuring the results of decentralization, the...

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Public Sector Reform : What Works and Why? - An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Support

Bank, World - 2008

The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports. Sound financial management, an efficient civil service and administrative policy, efficient and fair collection of taxes, and transparent...

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World Bank Assistance to Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : An IEG Review

Bank, World - 2007

Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority-it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor in the Region has doubled, to 300 million-more than 40 percent of the Region's population. Africa remains behind on most of the Millennium...

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Global Family Planning Revolution : Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs

Robinson, Warren C - 2007

The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries at the close of World War II gained force during the next decade. From the 1950s to the 1970s, scholars and advocacy groups publicized the trend and drew troubling conclusions about its economic and ecological implications....

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South-South Migration and Remittances.

Ratha, Dilip - 2007

-- Networks -- Income -- Seasonal Migration -- Transit -- Petty Trade -- Conflict and Disaster -- 4. Socioeconomic Dimensions of …

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Globalization for Development : Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration, and Policy

Goldin, Ian - 2006

main global flows-trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas-and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic … -- 1 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT -- 2 GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY -- 3 TRADE -- 4 FINANCE -- 5 AID -- 6 MIGRATION -- 7 IDEAS -- 8 ….2 Musical Doctors -- 6.3 Migrant Labor Institutions of the Philippines -- 7.1 Mercantilism -- Figures -- 1.1 Trade and Extreme …

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Innovating for the Global South : Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda

Soman, Dilip - 2014 - 1st ed.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking Innovation -- 1 Poverty, Invisibility, and Innovation -- 2 Behaviourally Informed Innovation -- 3 Appropriate Technologies for the Global South -- 4 Globalization of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Implications for Poor-Market Diseases --...

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Bringing in the Future : Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries

Ascher, William - 2009

Humans are plagued by shortsighted thinking, preferring to put off work on complex, deep-seated, or difficult problems in favor of quick-fix solutions to immediate needs. When short-term thinking is applied to economic development, especially in fragile nations, the results-corruption, waste,...

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World Development Report 2007 : Development and the Next Generation

2006

The theme of The World Development Report 2007 is youth - young people between the ages of 12 to 24. As this population group seeks identity and independence, they make decisions that affect not only their own well-being, but that of others, and they do this in a rapidly changing demographic and...

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Project Management for Healthcare.

Shirley, David - 2020 - 2nd ed.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Section I: Definition -- 1. Defining a Project -- What Is a Project? -- What Is a Project Life Cycle? -- The History of Project Management -- Roles and Responsibilities in Project...

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