China's recent economic growth has expanded industrialization and urbanization, upgraded consumption, increased social mobility, and initiated a shift from an economy based on agriculture to one based...
This book focuses on the institutional innovations needed to lead the diffusion of the new information and communication technology (ICT) that can help transform developing economies into knowledge economies...
Leadership, institutions and human capabilities are the key to moving countries from visions of the potential of the ongoing information and communication technology revolution to real competitive, innovative...
This book focuses on identifying the potential benefits of a holistic, cross-sectoral development driven approach to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and how it relates to economic development...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer substantial opportunities for development effectiveness. ICT has a pervasive impact on competitiveness and all aspects of life in advanced economies...
The environment for development has been changing rapidly, with new opportunities brought by globalization, and by the challenges to developing countries. While many of the changes should have helped developing...
This paper draws on many of the OED (Operations Evaluation Department) working papers that were prepared for the World Bank's "1999 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness." It identifies the key challenges...
This paper supports the 1999 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), by providing in-depth review of evaluation, and research findings that assess the relevance of the Comprehensive Development...
The paper focuses on the experience with comprehensive assessments, and planning exercises in the public, and private sectors, and draws out the implications for implementation of the Comprehensive Development...
The overall performance of World Bank operations has improved over the 1990s, despite major increases in project demandingness and complexity and a challenging global environment, according to Operations...
The overall performance of World Bank operations has improved over the 1990s, despite major increases in project demandingness and complexity and a challenging global environment, according to Operations...
The overall performance of World Bank operations has improved over the 1990s, despite major increases in project demandingness and complexity and a challenging global environment, according to Operations...
This paper proposes a framework for developing a national strategy for information technology development and diffusion in support of economy-wide competitiveness. The specific country case is India, a...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: excerpts from the media, by Barber Conable; spreading the world, by Lesley Anne Simmons; why innovation Is necessary for the bank, by...
Information is a major development resource, joining the ranks with human, natural and financial resources. Therefore, development agencies must understand the role of information and information technologies...
This paper proposes a framework for information resources management in the Bank. It explains why information management is critical to the evolving core business of a knowledge-based organization like...
This paper reviews the recent experience of strategic planning and management in large institutions, primarily in the private sector. The main conclusions are: (a) planing practices have undergone fundamental...