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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…
Bangladesh: Country Assistance Review
This volume reviews 16 years of IDA involvement in Bangladesh, which included 93 projects, a massive volume of economic and sector work, and an ongoing policy dialogue that has examined all aspects of economic and…
Mozambique Country Assistance Review
This Country Assistance Review (CAR) incorporates the findings of an OED team that visited Mozambique in October 1997. Its main conclusion is that the Bank's assistance in Mozambique's economic transformation strongly…
Thailand: Country Assistance Note
The severity of Thailand ' s crisis and the speed at which it spread to the region came as a surprise to most observers, and the World Bank was no exception. But, even if the Bank had benefited from perfect foresight,…
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…
Indonesia: Country Assistance Note
Indonesia, with significant Bank support, has achieved major progress, despite the setbacks of the 1997 financial crisis, which exposed the country's structural flaws. However, while the government's development…