In the 1990s, the image of the Bank in India improved significantly, mainly due to reasons beyond the Bank's control. As of the 90s, with economic liberalization, came a growing convergence which created...
The World Bank's just-released "Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2001" reports that developing country growth surged to 5.3 percent in 2000, up from 3.2 percent in 1999 and 1.0 percent...
La publicación reciente del Banco Mundial “Perspectivas económicas mundiales y los países en desarrollo, 2001” informa que el crecimiento de los países en desarrollo aumentó del 3,2% en 1999 y del 1,0%...
The World Bank's just-released "Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2001" reports that developing country growth surged to 5.3 percent in 2000, up from 3.2 percent in 1999 and 1.0 percent...
The demand-driven rural investment fund (DRIFs) is a new mechanism for decentralizing decision-making authority and financial resources to local governments and communities to use for investments of their...
The widespread failure of integrated rural development to bring about a sustained improvement in the living standards of rural people has left unanswered the question of how best to ensure effective rural...
Many developing countries are experimenting with decentralizing power and responsibilities to local governments. These processes of decentralization have achieved some notable improvements in delivering...
Historically, land reform has been implemented by government agencies expropriating land, with or without compensation, and then distributing it to the landless. Such reform is typically undermined by...