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Since the 1970s, World Bank lending in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sector has grown from a modest start to a total portfolio of US$14 billion (1998). This volume is a synthesis of the first comprehensive…

The audit concurs with the ICR in rating outcome of the Rural Roads Project as satisfactory and of States Roads Project as unsatisfactory, and in rating institutional development…

The audit covers both the Central and West Java Provincial Irrigation Development (CWJIP) and the Second Irrigation Sub-Sector (ISSP-II) projects. Both projects are assessed as…

This study reviews the HIAL initiative introduced in the Africa Region in 1995. HIAL is aimed at enhancing adjustment lending (AL) through improved country selection and better program design. This study evaluates the…

Fertility, mortality, and morbidity have slowly and steadily declined in India since independence, but remain unacceptably high. While the root causes are poverty and low levels of education, the public health programs…

This audit report covers the Beilungang Thermal Power Project, Wujing Thermal Power Project, and Beilungang Thermal Power Extension Project. The audit rates the outcomes of all three…

Overall, the audit rates the outcome of the project as satisfactory. The ICR's highly positive rating, is not consistent with the limited impact of the project on institutional and…

This audit report rates the outcome of the projects as satisfactory, given the many successful achievements in complex areas, even though the full impact cannot be assessed until the…

The project's overall outcome rating was downgraded to marginally satisfactory because of the negative environmental impact on the surrounding wetlands, which was not identified at…