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Financial Sector Reform: A Review of World Bank Assistance
This report analyzes and evaluates the outcomes of financial sector lending in today's increasingly globalized financial markets and focuses on the Bank's strategies for dealing with financial crisis. It reviews the…
Jamaica: Country Assistance Note
Jamaica has had negative per capita gross domestic product growth for much of the last quarter of a century, despite active involvement of the Bank. Three structural adjustment and five sectoral adjustment loans since…
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…
Argentina Country Assistance Evaluation
This report is an update of the Country Assistance Review of Argentina completed in 1996 (report 15844). The prior report found a mixed outcome to the Bank's assistance during the 1980s and early 1990s. The present…
Uruguay Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation concludes that the 1997 country assistance strategy (CAS) for Uruguay was based on a good diagnosis of economic, social, and political issues in the country. The strategy adequately…
Costa Rica Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) assesses the Banks assistance strategy for Costa Rica, based on the influence the strategy had for the 1980s on determining the relevance, and effectiveness of the 1990s strategy…
Bolivia: Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation assesses the relevance, efficacy, and efficiency of the World Bank ' s assistance strategy since 1986. A working draft of the CAE was sent to the government of Bolivia. Their comments…
Mexico: Country Assistance Evaluation
The report evaluates the Bank assistance to Mexico during FY89-00, which during the period was initially focused on structural reforms, shifted to investment lending, to then quickly respond to the crisis, and finally…