What does the World Bank do and how does it do it? -- The emerging critique -- Fifty years of bank reforms -- The 1990s--reengineering the organization -- Changing culture and changing people -- Reforming the bank's assistance product -- Changing the quality of development assistance --...

List of acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: motivation and perspective -- What is foreign aid, who does it, why and how much is there? -- How far has development aid been effective? -- Why has development aid done so little? -- Changing the dynamics of development -- "New aid" : new ways to...

Developing viable new business is critical to recovery, and long-term growth, especially in transition economies. There has been a long history of public support of enterprise development, starting with centralized state agency initiatives, but moving more recently to decentralized instruments...

Cote d'Ivoire conducted household surveys between 1985 and 1995, making it possible to trace changes in urban and rural poverty and changes in poverty among different socioeconomic groups. During the decade surveyed, the country experienced a major recession. Poverty increased substantially and...