Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Technical Assistance (Financed by the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund) to the Lao People's Democratic Republic for the Poverty Reduction Throught Land Tenure Consolidation, Participatory Natural Resources Management, and Local Communities Skills Building Project
Author: Doing A Dam Better
Author: Ian C. PorterPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821369865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book succinctly describes how a large hydro dam in a poor country with weak capacity was successfully prepared by a truly global development and financial partnership, by turning the natural resource curse on its head and tapping the state of the art to mitigate environmental and social impacts.
Empowerment and Poverty Reduction
Author: Deepa Narayan-ParkerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821351666
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This publication offers a framework for the empowerment of people living in poverty throughout the world that concentrates on increasing people's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. Based on analysis of practical experiences, the book identifies four key elements to support empowerment: information, inclusion and participation, improved accountability and local organisational capacity. This framework is then applied to five areas of action to improve development effectiveness: provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, pro-poor market development, and access to justice and legal aid. It also offers twenty 'tools and practices' which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to support the empowerment of the poor.
Mapping research and innovation in Lao People's Democratic Republic
Author: Lemarchand, Guillermo A.Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231002716
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015
Author: World Bank;International Monetary FundPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9781464803369
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity and assesses the state of policies and institutions that are important for achieving them. The report continues to monitor progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Also for the first time, the report includes information about high-income countries. It finds that while gaps in living standards have been closing in many countries, the well-being of households in the bottom 40 percent, as measured by the non-income MDGs such as access to education and health services, remains below that of households in the top 60 percent. The focus of this year's report is on three elements needed to make growth more inclusive and sustainable: investment in human capital that favors the poor, the best use of safety nets, and steps to ensure the environmental sustainability of economic growth. These three elements are imperative to all countries' development strategies, and are also fundamental to global efforts to achieve the twin goals, the MDGs, and the Sustainable Development Goals that will succeed the MDGs. Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 was prepared in collaboration with regional development banks and other multilateral partners.
National Program Coordination
Author: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Office of Program Planning and EvaluationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blood
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
Author: Klaus W. DeiningerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This volume synthesizes insights from the vast literature on land policy, taking due account of actual experiences in policy implementation, and suggests ways to design land policies that promote growth as well as poverty reduction.
Poverty Reduction Support Credits
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082138306X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This evaluation examines the relevance and effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs), introduced by the Bank in early 2001 to support comprehensive growth, improve social conditions, and reduce poverty in IDA countries. PRSCs were intended to allow greater country-ownership, provide more predictable annual support, exhibit more flexible conditionality, and strengthen budget processes in a results-based framework. By September 2009, the Bank had approved 99 PRSCs totaling some $7.5 billion and representing 38% percent of IDA policy based lending. The evaluation finds that in terms of process, PRSCs were effective in easing conditionality, increasing country ownership and aid predictability, stimulating dialogue between central and sectoral ministries, and improving donor harmonization. In terms of content, PRSCs succeeded in emphasizing public sector management and pro-poor service delivery. Yet in terms of results, it is difficult to distinguish growth and poverty outcomes in countries with PRSCs from other better performing IDA countries. There is scope for further simplifying the language of conditionality and underpinning PRSCs with better pro-poor growth diagnostics. PRSCs can also strengthen their results frameworks and limit sector policy content in multi-sector DPLs to high-level or cross-cutting issues. Today, Bank policy has subsumed PRSCs under the broader mantle of Development Policy Lending and the rationale for a separate brand name although differences linger from the past. Since PRSCs and other policy-based lending have gradually converged in design, remaining differences compared to other Development Policy Loans should be clearly spelled out, or the separate PRSC brand name should be phased out.
Rigged Rules and Double Standards
Author: Kevin WatkinsPublisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 9780855985257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A critical and detailed analysis of inequalities of world trade systems.
OECD Investment Policy Reviews
Author: Organization for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentPublisher: OCDE
ISBN: 9789264208391
Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This Investment Policy Review examines Nigerias investment policies in light of the OECD Policy Framework for Investment (PFI), a tool to mobilize investment in support of economic growth and sustainable development. It provides an assessment and policy recommendations on different areas of the PFI: investment policy; investment promotion and facilitation; trade policy; infrastructure investment; competition; corporate governance and financial sector development. It also includes a special chapter analyzing the PFI in Lagos State. The Review follows on the request addressed by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria to the OECD Secretary-General in December 2011. It has been prepared in close co-operation with the Federal Government of Nigeria and Lagos State Government.