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Bridging Troubled Waters: A World Bank Strategy
In 1997 more than 1.1 billion people in low- and middle-income countries lacked access to safe water supplies, and far more were without adequate sanitation. Today, 166 million people in 18 countries suffer from water…
Bolivia Water Management: A Tale of Three Cities
The urban share of Bolivia's population has doubled since the late 1970s. Providing adequate water and sanitation services has proved a major challenge. To understand the lessons of the Bolivian experience, the…
Cultural Properties in Policy and Practice
The World Bank has a long history and extensive experience with cultural properties dating back to the reconstruction of postwar Europe. Since then, the Bank's approach to matters of culture has evolved considerably…
Burkina Faso - National Environmental Management Project
Project outcome is rated moderately
satisfactory, while project sustainabiliy is rated as not
evaluable and institutional development impact as modest.
Both World Bank and Borrower…
Malawi - Fisheries Development Project
The audit assessment rates the
outcome of this operation as unsatisfactory, institutional
development impacts as modest, and sustainability as
unlikely. Similarly, the performances by…
The World Bank, Privatization and Enterprise Reform in Transition Economies: A Retrospective Analysis
This conceptual account details the approach to privatization and enterprise reform of three major countries in transition: Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It discusses the states of mind that…
Seychelles - Environment and Transport Project
The overall outcome of the
Environment and Transport Project was unsatisfactory, given
that the primary objective to assist Seychelles towards
sustainable environmental management was…
Bulgaria Country Assistance Evaluation
This evaluation provides an independent assessment of the role of World Bank assistance to the Republic of Bulgaria during 1991â2000. It covers activities that comprise 93 percent of total lending in this period. The…
West Bank and Gaza: An Evaluation
This report examines World Bank assistance to West Bank and Gaza (WB&G) during the period 1993 to end 2000. In most respects, the Bank's performance in West Bank and Gaza has been excellent and should serve as a…
Romania - Health Services Rehabilitation Project
Notwithstanding the poor performance
of some project components, this assessment report rates the
overall outcome of the project as moderately satisfactory,
compared to a satisfactory…