Over the recent year, humanity has faced natural disasters of unprecedented magnitude and impact. However, governments and international aid organizations do not systematically plan for preventing and...
This paper focuses on evaluations with findings that challenge important assumptions of the development field. Its objective is to pinpoint the areas to watch for in operations or policies that are decisive...
The financial and food crises are reminders of the growing challenges countries face in sustaining economic growth and lifting the living standards of the poor. Equally, the emerging impacts of global...
This book examines the 35-year career of Vinod Thomas. He spent those 35 years within the World Bank Group in different positions and in different regions. This book is organized in four parts. First...
The goal of Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs), introduced in early 2001 under World Bank Interim guidelines, was to help countries implement comprehensive, country-owned development strategies...
In a recent report on middle-income countries, the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) found that countries and the World Bank Group have been relatively effective in the overarching priority of promoting...
The world faces unprecedented opportunities to reduce global poverty and improve human welfare. Strong global growth and better economic policies in recent years have substantially reduced poverty in many...
Between fiscal 1999 and fiscal 2007, the period under review in this Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE), Egypt's economic performance improved substantially, particularly after 2004, following improvements...
Ethiopia is among the World Bank's largest IDA-eligible borrowers in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a country portfolio comprising 22 active projects for a total net commitment of US$2 billion as of end-FY07...
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...
Achieving rapid development calls for improved capacity in the public and private sectors to support development policies and projects. The World Bank recognizes that capacity building is a long-term process...
The overarching theme of the book is development in a land of contrasts. There have been large economic, social, and political changes. The mass of society is far more expressive and politically involved...
Young Brazilians share their recommendations on the 2004-2007 Brazil Country Assistance Strategy (CAS). The participatory approach to the design of this CAS included over 100 Brazilian youth organizations...
公平地接受教育是一项基本的人权。但在许多国家,不同群体之间的教育差距令人瞠目。教育基尼指数(一种新的人力资本和福利分配指标)有助于比较不同国家和不同时段之间的教育不平等。 Thomas、Wang和Fan用基尼指数测量了教育程度的不平等。他们提出了两种计算教育基尼指数的方法(直接的和间接的),并得出了85个国家15岁以上人口(1960-90年间)以五年为一个 阶段的教育基尼指数数据集。他们的初步经验性分析表明:...
This book is presented in the spirit of continuous inquiry and feedback in framing development thinking. It reaffirms the crucial contribution of market-friendly policies. It also highlights key missing...
This book is presented in the spirit of continuous inquiry and feedback in framing development thinking. It reaffirms the crucial contribution of market-friendly policies. It also highlights key missing...
This book is presented in the spirit of continuous inquiry and feedback in framing development thinking. It reaffirms the crucial contribution of market-friendly policies. It also highlights key missing...
This book is presented in the spirit of continuous inquiry and feedback in framing development thinking. It reaffirms the crucial contribution of market-friendly policies. It also highlights key missing...
本书提出了发展的三个原则和一套提高增长进程质量的行动方案。什么是增长的质量呢?作为发展速度的补充,它是指构成增长进程的关键性内容。各国的经验都表明了若干项这类问题的重要性:机会分配,环境可持续,全球风险的管理,以及治理结构。它们不仅直接构成发展的成果,而且还会扩大增长对这些成果所产生的影响,它们还要解决增长可能会带来的与环境或社会可持续性之间的矛盾。这些构成增长进程的政策与机构的混合体正是本研究报告的中心议题。
This book is presented in the spirit of continuous inquiry and feedback in framing development thinking. It reaffirms the crucial contribution of market-friendly policies. It also highlights key missing...