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This review examines the implementation of the FY08 Serbia Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) and the FY10 CPS Progress Report (CPSPR), and evaluates the CPS Completion Report (CPSCR…

Over the two last decades, development agencies including the World Bank have increasingly sought to support formal accountability institutions and the “demand-side of governance” in their efforts to help strengthen…

Cambodia is one of the world's most open economies, sustaining high levels of growth in an environment of relatively weak governance. Emerging from a legacy of genocide and civil conflict, the country has sought to…

Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest and most densely populated countries, and subject to annual cyclones and flooding. Despite these challenges, it benefits from strong economic growth, good performance on health…

The World Bank reengaged in Liberia in 2004, following more than a decade of conflict during which a quarter of a million people perished, per capita GDP contracted from $890 (1980) to $190 (2007), virtually all public…

Azerbaijan is a secular, majority-Shiite, oil and gas-rich country whose per-capita income quadrupled in real terms during the period 2004–10. While rising incomes have reduced poverty, steps towards a more secure,…

Moldova has suffered over the last two decades from rising poverty, territorial secession, armed conflict, and the spillover effects of a regional financial crisis, with declining population size and life expectancy,…

As part of the Independent Evaluation Group's (IEG) evaluation of the World Bank's 2007 Governance and Anticorruption (GAC) strategy and implementation plan, a review of the resourcing approach and related actions taken…

This review examines the implementation of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2011 Uzbekistan Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and FY 2010 CAS Progress Report (CASPR), which defined the joint strategy of IBRD/IDA and the IFC.…

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 (…