Poverty has remained stubbornly high in Africa for decades. Top-down plans and donor driven investment programs have been less than successful. Past experience suggests that decentralization will not work...
A Task Force was set up to recommend changes in the way the Bank affects African capacity, both directly through operations aimed at capacity development, and indirectly through the way it conducts its...
Un Groupe de travail a été mis en place pour recommander des changements dans la manière dont la Banque agit sur les capacités africaines, à la fois directement par des opérations visant au développement...
This development outreach newsletter includes some of the following headlines: special report, capacity and development. Capacity for development: guest editorial; by de Nevers, Michele, Leautier, Frannie...
L’avenir de l’Afrique sera déterminé par sa ressource la plus précieuse, les Africains. Toutefois, la croissance économique ne permettra pas, à elle seule, de faire reculer la pauvreté sur le continent...
Africa's outcome shall be determined by its most precious resource: the African people. However, economic growth alone, will not reduce the continent's poverty. Thus educating youth, enhancing disease...
Poverty has remained stubbornly high in Africa for decades. Top-down plans and donor driven investment programs have been less than successful. Past experience suggests that decentralization will not work...
This report reviews the evolution and performance of the World Bank's urban lending program since its inception in 1972. Some of the questions it seeks to answer include: What have been the objectives...