The scaling up of development policies, practices and partnerships is a strategic challenge. The upgrading of development ambition from investment operations and country strategies to global policies would...
Modern psychology confirms that in order to adapt to the demands of a changing, sometimes hostile environment, and organisms must be able to profit from past experience. Therefore the textbook definition...
The United Nations Conference on Financing for Development captured a new development paradigm, and reflected a broad-based consensus about aid effectiveness. This note identifies the major challenges...
La Conférence des Nations Unies sur le financement du développement, qui s’est tenue à Monterrey, au Mexique, en mars 2002, est un événement d’une portée considérable. Intégrant un nouveau paradigme du...
The Bank's recent study of involuntary resettlement show that if countries do not have both the capacity and the commitment to handle involuntary resettlement well, they should not embark on a large dam...
The Bank's recent study of involuntary resettlement show that if countries do not have both the capacity and the commitment to handle involuntary resettlement well, they should not embark on a large dam...
L’étude récente réalisée par la Banque sur les réinstallations involontaires montre que si les pays n’ont pas la capacité et la volonté de gérer les réinstallations involontaires correctement, ils ne devraient...
The Bank's recent study of involuntary resettlement show that if countries do not have both the capacity and the commitment to handle involuntary resettlement well, they should not embark on a large dam...
The report presents selected papers, and transcripts of key proceedings from a World Bank Seminar on Evaluation Capacity Development, and its main focus is on national experiences in developing evaluation...
Cofinanced public extension in Nicaragua. Reconsidering agricultural extension. Globalization and inequality: past and present. The policymaking uses of multitopic household survey data: a primer. Formal...
The paper challenges the production function model of educational evaluation and proposes a new paradigm reflecting the lessons of experience and enriched by the new institutional economics. The current...
This paper explores the intersection between institutional economics and development practice. Intent on shaping development policy and overcoming implementation dilemmas, development decision makers need...
Quality management - one operations division's approach, by Krishna Challa. Enhancing the strategic dialogue : an approach to joint stocktaking and enriching bank/government partnerships, by Katherine...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: equality: not a women's issue; a management issue by Gillian Ross; traditional midwives: a powerful force in 'Kampungs', by Carla Bianpoen;...
The recent evolution of development thinking has highlighted popular involvement in decision making. Yet policy gridlock and stop-and-go implementation have been associated with excessive responsiveness...
This Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: another "green revolution?" by John Greenfield; Ken Piddington: environmentally sound by Alan Drattell; readers respond by Thierry Sagnier;...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: meet barber conable, by Alan Drattell; Daniel Defoe: the first policy project analyst? By Robert Picciotto; WDR: agriculture is critical...
Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: Qureshi comments on what happened in FY83 and looks ahead to what may occur in FY84: it was a very good year, by Alan Drattell; visit to china...
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: world hunger is seen as result of mal-distribution, not a lack of food, by Robert Picciotto; author pays tribute to Mary Evans; meeting...