Poverty has remained stubbornly high in Africa for decades. Top-down plans and donor driven investment programs have been less than successful. Past experience suggests that decentralization will not work...
A Task Force was set up to recommend changes in the way the Bank affects African capacity, both directly through operations aimed at capacity development, and indirectly through the way it conducts its...
A Task Force was set up to recommend changes in the way the Bank affects African capacity, both directly through operations aimed at capacity development, and indirectly through the way it conducts its...
This development outreach newsletter includes some of the following headlines: special report, capacity and development. Capacity for development: guest editorial; by de Nevers, Michele, Leautier, Frannie...
Africa's outcome shall be determined by its most precious resource: the African people. However, economic growth alone, will not reduce the continent's poverty. Thus educating youth, enhancing disease...
Africa's outcome shall be determined by its most precious resource: the African people. However, economic growth alone, will not reduce the continent's poverty. Thus educating youth, enhancing disease...
Poverty has remained stubbornly high in Africa for decades. Top-down plans and donor driven investment programs have been less than successful. Past experience suggests that decentralization will not work...
This report reviews the evolution and performance of the World Bank's urban lending program since its inception in 1972. Some of the questions it seeks to answer include: What have been the objectives...