Front Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- World Bank Group Management Response -- Management Action Record -- Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness -- 1 Introduction and Portfolio Review -- Motivation -- Theoretical Foundations --...

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...

Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of human resources programs (HR) is critical for success in today's business world and is an absolute requirement for HR professionals who are part of the senior executive team. Responding to the current accountability demands that continue to challenge...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Definitions -- Executive Summary -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Background and Objective -- Main Issues for the Sector -- The World Bank Group's Changing Role in the Extractive Industries -- 2 From Economic Benefits to Sustainable...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary, Résumen, Résumé Analytique -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Purpose and Background -- Long Period of Growth Followed by the "Lost Decade" -- 2 World Bank Assistance to Brazil, 1990-02 -- The First Phase (1990-94): Contraction of...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- contents -- abbreviations -- acknowledgments -- overview -- management comments -- 1. Gender Integration in World Bank Group Operations and Country Strategies -- Introduction -- Are projects and country strategies gender informed? -- Rationale and...

Online ratings play an important role in many markets. However, how fast they can reveal seller types remains unclear. To study this question, we propose a new model in which a buyer learns about the seller’s type from previous ratings and her own experience and rates the seller if she learns...