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Around the turn of the millennium, based on lessons learned from projects in Bolivia and elsewhere, the World Bank began tinkering with the model of decentralized, community-driven development, trying to make it a more…

Bolivia’s poor maternal and child health outcomes were of great concern in the 1990s. Infant and child mortality rates were 67 and 92 per 1,000 live births in 1998, and maternal mortality was 390 per 100,000 live births…

What can resource-rich countries do to beat the resource-curse and better weather the cyclical nature of commodities markets?

How can the World Bank Group help countries better manage their natural wealth? Insights from IEG's evaluation on resource rich countries.

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the outcomes of the World Bank Group's operations in Bolivia during the period from FY05 to FY13. It is part of the Clustered CPE for Resource Rich Developing Countries,…

The Clustered Country Program Evaluation (Clustered CPE) includes a synthesis report and four separate country program evaluations of World Bank Group engagement in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Kazakhstan,…

IEG's first Cluster Country Program Evaluation (CCPE) will focus on Resource Rich Developing Countries (RRDCs) in Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Zambia. The topic of extraction, management, and use of natural…

This review examines the implementation of the Bolivia Fiscal Year (FY) 2010-2011 Interim Strategy Note (ISN) of FY 2010. It limits its assessment to those parts—henceforth referred to as the ISN Completion Report (…

This paper belongs to series of 19 country and regional case studies commissioned as background research for the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) report "Pension Reform and the Development of Pension…

After over 10 years of stabilization and structural reform, Bolivia in 1998 appeared to be poised for major development advances. The Bank's FY99-03 program thus adopted accelerated growth, poverty reduction, and human…