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Ecuador Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) focuses on the Bank ' s 1990s experience in Ecuador, relative to the 1993 country assistance strategy (CAS), regretfully, a strategy which underestimated the risks associated…
Cambodia - Emergency Rehabilitation Credit and Economic Rehabilitation Credit Projects
The Emergency Rehabilitation Project
(ERP) was the first IDA project in Cambodia, and was
followed by the Economic Rehabilitation Credit (ERC). The
overall objective of the two…
Developing Towns and Cities: Lessons from Brazil and the Philippines
The World Bank has been financing projects in support of municipal development for some 20 years. This study presents and analyzes the concrete results of four successful projects in Brazil and the Philippines,…
Aid Coordination and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: the West Bank and Gaza Experience
With the Kosovo crisis capturing the world's attention, taking a look back at how the World Bank and the international donor community responded to other post-conflict reconstruction and aid coordination challenges in…
Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Four Sectors
The Bank completed 287 projects between 1992 and 1997 in Sub-Saharan Africa, at a cost of US$9.6 billion, in four essential sectors: agriculture, education, health and nutrition, and urban and rural infrastructure. The…
Land Administration & Rural Development: Two Cases from Thailand
Experience in Thailand sheds light on one of the key dimensions of land administration: its contribution to improving natural resource management and reducing rural poverty. The two projects under review were separate…
Capacity Building in the Agricultural Sector in Africa (brief)
Capacity building has risen high on the African development agenda. The Bank, with other donors, is seeking appropriate means to work with African governments to enhance their capacity to implement development programs…
Administration foncière et développement rural : deux exemples venus de Thaïlande
'EXPÃÂRIENCE DE LA THAÃÂLANDE MET EN LUMIÃÂRE une dimension importante de l'administration foncière : la façon dont elle peut améliorer la gestion des ressources Lnaturelles et contribuer àréduire…