This paper summarizes the World Bank's knowledge on open, participatory, and responsive governance. It offers a rethinking and broadening of the term "open government" in light of the World Bank Group's...
Contents of the development outreach newsletter are as follows: the south-south opportunity; south meets south: enriching the development menu; rise of the global south and its impact on south-south cooperation;...
This is a challenging time for Africa. The combined effects of the global economic crisis, the need for equitable allocation of natural resource assets, and the ever-changing balance of influence and power...
Contents of the development outreach newsletter are as follows: delivering on the agenda for action; committing to effective aid; the struggle for ownership of assistance; the millennium challenge account;...
Contents of the development outreach newsletter are as follows: agriculture contributes to development in many ways; new opportunity and new challenges; rising food prices; a window of opportunity for...
Contents of the development outreach newsletter are as follows: democracy: an adaptable system critical for development; overcoming autocratic legacies; building institutional capacity for democratization;...
This report synthesizes a stocktaking of civil society-initiated social accountability practices in the public budgetary process in 10 Anglophone African countries-Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia...
This development outreach newsletter includes some of the following headlines: special report: reaching the poor with health services. Vigilance, hope and hard work; by Abdo S. Yaazbeck and Davidson R...
This paper presents the design and field testing of an instrument for the ongoing work of the World Bank Institute (WBI) in the area of capacity assessment. The approach piloted here, a Capacity Enhancement...
This development outreach newsletter includes some of the following headlines: access for all: making AIDS related services accessible to everyone; by Debrework Zewdie. The time is now to avert a major...
This paper attempts to provide a new conceptual framework for practical recommendations, for capacity enhancement initiatives for social development. Most such initiatives-in social development and elsewhere-have...
Special report - Young people count : Keeping the promise: a better future for out children; by Mamphela Ramphele. We must invest in children; by Carol Bellamy. Developing young voices; by Djorjija B...
Civil society in turmoil, civil society in development; by Mary McNeil. Afghanistan and Pakistan : at the crossroads.; by Homira Nassery, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, and Najma Siddiqi. The revolt of Argentina's...
Fight terrorism and poverty; by James D. Wolfensohn. Special report : the knowledge economy - Updating the economic incentive and institutional regime for the knowledge economy; by Carl J. Dahlman. Human...
From reconstruction to reconciliation; by Nat J. Colletta and Taies Nezam. The war and reconstruction in Sierra Leone; by Paul Richards. Macedonia: the hardships of a peaceful neighbor; by German Filkov...
The value of democracy; by Amartya Sen. The role of participation in development; by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Asian values and the current crisis; by Francis Fukuyama. The next stage of anti-corruption; by...
Making sure social funds help the poorest, by Anthony G. Bigio. Regulators push investment awareness in Latin America, by Sophia Lynn. Korean Journal : aftermath of the crisis, by Shinok Park. World Bank...
The changing nature of infrastructure. Infrastructure: the crux of modern urban development. Transportation in Curitiba, Brazil. Technical exchange: the Raleigh-Tetouan experience. Guinea-Bissau: social...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: May Day in Moscow, 1992, by William T. Onorato; the issues of work and family, by Thierry Sagnier and Jill Roessner; getting there...
Ce rapport retrace les activités du Programme d’alimentation en eau et d’assainissement PNUD – Banque mondiale pendant l’année civile 1989 jusqu’en juin 1990. Il présente tout d’abord une synthèse des...