Public Expenditure and Tracking Surveys (PETS) was launched in order to expose the anomalies in the process of flow of funds and to gauge the degree to which funds trickle down to their intended destinations...
The Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC) is the World Bank's quick disbursing lending instrument for supporting the poverty reduction efforts of an eligible borrower country. Two annual PRSCs were approved...
The rationale for broadening Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) networking in Nicaragua and launching the cluster development program in India was to assist SME to overcome the challenges of the new economy...
In 1995 the World Bank and the Government of Brazil (GoB) jointly initiated the Rural Poverty Alleviation Program (RPAP) in an attempt to reduce the poverty levels in the northeast region of Brazil. The...
Nike started its commercial venture in Vietnam in 1995 and made a significant contribution to the country's economy during the late 1990s. However, violations of the labor code at Nike's Vietnamese contract...
The Russian coal sector was in need of reforms after beginning its transition from a planned economy in 1991. In 1996 and 2000, the World Bank provided two sector adjustment loans, or SECALs, for socially...
SEWA is the acronym for the Self-Employed Women's Association, based in Ahmedabad, India. In Hindi (an Indian language), sewa means 'service.' The association, working as a cooperative union, holds the...
The World Bank funded People's Voice Project (PVP) was initiated in March 1999 as a pilot project in four Ukrainian cities, with the objective of improving the quality of public services through public...
Burkina Faso was one of the five poorest countries in the world during the late 1990s. The formation of local Rural Producer Organizations (RPOs) has been a positive step in empowering of the farming community...
The Village Phone (VP) program is an initiative of the Grameen Bank, a well-known nongovernmental organization (NGO) providing economic assistance to poor villagers in rural Bangladesh. Grameen Bank provides...
In Hindi (an Indian language spoken in most parts of Northern and Central India), a choupal is a village gathering place. The e-choupal initiative, whereby a choupal is equipped with a computer and Internet...
Gyandoot, which means 'purveyor of knowledge' in Hindi, is a government-to-citizen, intranet-based service portal, implemented in the Dhar district of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, in January 2000...
International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) was established in 1946 to bring together nationally representative farmers' organizations (FOs) to ensure the security of the world's food supply...
The Filipino report card survey was conducted in spring 2000 by the World Bank in collaboration with Social Weather Stations (SWS), an independent survey research organization in the Philippines. The survey...
The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is the national-level body involved in promoting, financing, and supporting milk-distribution organizations in India that are owned and controlled by the producers...
The Kothmale Community Radio Internet Project is an attempt to extend the benefits of information and communication technology (ICT) to some of the remote areas of Sri Lanka through the innovative convergence...
Latvia is one of the transition economies that came in existence after the end of Soviet reign. During late 1990s, the corruption and the lack of efficiency and proper mechanisms in the government system...
The citizens' report card in Bangalore (Southern India) was a civil society initiative undertaken in 1993 to monitor government services in terms of efficiency and accountability. The exercise gathered...
In the last five decades of its existence, the Blind People's Association (BPA) at Ahmedabad, India, has emerged as an internationally renowned voluntary organization for the blind and people with other...
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) was set up at the World Bank as a three-year initiative (1995-1998) to increase the quality and quantity of sustainable microfinance institutions (MFIs)...