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Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, remarked that the millennium development goals (MDGs) created a metric of …
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ineffectiveness of development spending, policy makers have started to explore new ways of structuring development support in order to …
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Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, discussed the following priorities: (i) understanding fragile states; (ii) building legitimacy of the state; (iii) security; (iv) rule of law and the legal order; (v) local and national ownership; (vi) economic stability, as a foundation for growth...
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promote inclusive development or advance the public interest. Property rights were extremely limited, and administrative power … services were largely unavailable outside of a few major cities. This unbalanced development pattern gave rise to vast … the complete collapse of both the state and the economy, derailing Liberia's development and compounding its already …
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Favorable global economic conditions supported a turnaround in economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2017, easing pressure on weak policy frameworks. Output growth rebounded to an estimated 2.6 percent after decelerating to 1.5 percent in 2016 amid challenging external and domestic...
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The Afghanistan Development Update is a twice-annual publication providing analysis of recent developments and … topics address: i) the potential for trade to underpin development in Afghanistan; ii) recent trends in poverty and welfare …
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Access to justice is a 'big tent' for law programs broadly writ and has been so for over 25 years. Traditionally, access to justice has been treated as a category of interventions rather than a heuristic device from which to learn and experiment. In the old, old days, access to justice meant...
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humanitarian and development challenge. The Bank supports the global knowledge partnership on migration and development (KNOMAD …
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Security and development remain inextricably linked in Afghanistan, with the poor security environment continuing to … to have a positive impact on Afghanistan's economic development, including Afghanistan's accession to the World Trade …
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operation and maintenance costs through consumer tariffs). Stretching these 'development' interventions into protracted crises …
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