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This report is a self-evaluation of the Operations Evaluation Department's (OED) Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs). CAEs examine World Bank performance in a particular country, usually over the past four to five years, and report on its conformity with the relevant Bank Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and on the overall effectiveness of the specific CAS. This Retrospective addresses the question ""What Have We Learned?"" by compiling lessons relevant for developing country assistance strategies from the most recent batch of CAEs. Second, it assesses revisions to the CAE process, methodol

Social costs. Social benefits --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- World Bank --- Economic assistance --- Evaluation. --- World Bank. --- OED

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This study evaluates progress under the HIPC initiative since IEG's 2003 evaluation. It finds that the Enhanced HIPC initiative cut debt ratios in half for 18 countries, but in eight of these countries, the ratios have come to once again exceed HIPC thresholds. Debt reduction alone is not a sufficient instrument to affect the multiple drivers of debt sustainability. Sustained improvements in export diversification, fiscal management, the terms of new financing, and public debt management are also needed, measures that fall outside the ambit of the HIPC initiative.

Social costs. Social benefits --- International finance --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- World Bank --- Developing countries --- Debt relief --- Debts, External

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Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is an approach used increasingly by governments, civil society organizations, the World Bank, and other development partners to examine the distributional impacts of policy reforms on the well-being of different stakeholders groups, particularly the poor and vulnerable. PSIA has an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing countries because it promotes evidence-based policy choices and fosters debate on policy reform options. Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms presents a collection of

Social policy --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Social costs. Social benefits --- Poverty --- Developing countries --- Economic policy. --- #SBIB:327.4H10 --- Ontwikkelingsproblematiek: algemeen

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The international community has committed itself to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, and national levels. Yet, despite growing awareness, and major efforts in all countries, the latest evidence indicates that biodiversity continues to be lost at a terrifying pace, resulting in what some call the greatest mass extinction since dinosaurs roamed the planet, 65 million years ago. A range of methods have been developed to value ecosystems, and the services they provide, as well as the costs of conservation. The methods avail

Nature protection --- Social costs. Social benefits --- General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- AA / International- internationaal --- 351.2 --- 355 --- Openbare gezondheid. Milieubescherming. Milieuvervuiling. --- Milieu --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental protection --- Environmental policy --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects.

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This book analyzes the objectives and content of the World Bank's assistance program during the period 1994-2003, the economic and social development outcomes in Pakistan, and the contributions of the Bank to development outcomes.

Development aid. Development cooperation --- Social costs. Social benefits --- World Bank --- Pakistan --- Economic assistance --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Evaluation. --- World Bank (Pakistan) --- World Bank in Pakistan