By the mid-1990s, after more than 15 years of adjustment lending, it had become clear that adjustment programs in Africa had not accelerated growth or reduced poverty, except in a handful of countries...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21554Fecha: 31 de mayo de 1999Autor:
Pape, Elizabeth
Diagnostic surveys can provide vital information for decisionmakers when institutional weaknesses inhibit a more regular flow of information. If strategically designed, a survey can help induce policy...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21558Fecha: 31 de mayo de 1999Autor:
Reinikka, Ritva S.
Successful projects indicate that strong nongovernmental organizations (NGO) or community-based organizations (CBO) involvement significantly contributes to project success, especially to providing be...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22971Fecha: 30 de abril de 1999Autor:
Gibbs, Christopher J. N. ;
Fumo, Claudia ;
Kuby, Thomas Alexander
Yemen faces enormous challenges. Assistance to the country can be improved, however, if the International Development Association (IDA) establishes priorities in its future assistance strategy that ar...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22973Fecha: 30 de abril de 1999Autor:
Effron, Laurie
The municipal development projects in Brazil and the Philippines examined in the OED impact evaluation study achieved what they set out to do. They promoted municipal government reforms and improved f...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22972Fecha: 30 de abril de 1999Autor:
Gilbert, Roy T. ;
Lee, Kyu Sik
The OED study found that the Second LivestockProject for Mauritania succeeded in establishing pastoral cooperative associations (PCAs), but was inconsistent over time in its approach to the organizati...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22975Fecha: 30 de abril de 1999Autor:
English, John C.
The World Bank completed 287 projects between 1992 and 1997 in Sub-Saharan Africa, at a cost of US$9.6 billion, in four essential sectors: agriculture, education, health and nutrition, and urban and r...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22976Fecha: 30 de abril de 1999Autor:
De Silva, Asita R.
Given the rural nature of most African economies and the concentration of the poor in rural areas, there is a pressing need to increase capacity to promote agricultural development. The studies discus...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22974Fecha: 30 de abril de 1999Autor:
Rice, Edward B.
When the Bank designed a set of projects in the mid-1980s to strengthen Indonesia's transport infrastructure, which was becoming overburdened by the country's rapid economic growth, efforts focused on...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22992Fecha: 1 de abril de 1999Autor:
Talvitie, Antti P.
The note describes the rationale, and objectives of the pilot micro-finance capacity-building initiative in Africa, to reinforce financial management, link African services providers to the Consultati...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21201Fecha: 1 de abril de 1999Autor:
Helms, Brigit S. ;
Isern, Jennifer ;
D'Ambrosio-Vitale, Nathalie
The note reviews the potential of public expenditure reviews as objective analysis of a country's public spending issues, and in advancing the development agenda in the Bank's client countries. It exa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21255Fecha: 1 de abril de 1999Autor:
Swaroop, Vinaya
The note addresses the role of ombudsman offices, and what ensures its effectiveness. Good administration requires much more than acting legally, which include constitutional, and human rights abuses,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21254Fecha: 1 de abril de 1999Autor:
Manning, Nick ;
Galligan, D.J.
While the 1987 Power Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia, was confined to operational improvements of the state-owned power company, a recent Operations Evaluation Department (OED) study has found that ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22994Fecha: 31 de marzo de 1999Autor:
Barbu, Alain A. ;
Luzuriaga, Luis
Despite the emergence of the World Bank as the leader in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sector for developing countries, in India however, (where the Bank invested more in HNP than in any...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22989Fecha: 31 de marzo de 1999Autor:
Ridker, Ronald G. ;
Musgrove, Philip A.
The evolving nature of the World Bank's investments in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sector, led from to direct lending for primary health in the 1980s, to supporting health system refor...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22988Fecha: 31 de marzo de 1999Autor:
Johnston, Timothy A. ;
Stout, Susan A.
The assistance provided by the World Bank to the health sector in Mali has contributed to improved access to rural health services and increased availability of affordable essential drugs, according t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22990Fecha: 31 de marzo de 1999Autor:
Johnston, Sheila Dohoo Favre ;
Raney, Laura
World Bank health programs in Brazil have been relevant, but results have been uneven, according to a recent study by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED). Bank-supported programs have helped to...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22991Fecha: 30 de marzo de 1999Autor:
Gauri, Varun
Debt management can reduce financial vulnerability by limiting liquidity, and rollover risks. This note reviews Argentina's debt management strategy, towards improving the country's credit rating to a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21252Fecha: 1 de febrero de 1999Autor:
Kiguel, Miguel Alberto
The note focuses on the speculative attack on domestic assets, which can occur irrespective of country's fiscal situation, suggesting political economy considerations may be the reason. However, recen...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21251Fecha: 1 de febrero de 1999Autor:
Calvo, Sara Guerschanik
Terms of trade shocks may slow growth, worsen the distribution of income, and raise the odds of highly disruptive currency crises. This note raises questions on how can countries cope with terms of tr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21253Fecha: 1 de febrero de 1999Autor:
Hausmann, Ricardo
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