This is the sixth Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), covering the year 2002, whose findings indicate that the Bank's country, sector, and global programs are consistent with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) themes, increasingly focused on poverty reduction. The review...

Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword, Prólogo, Préface -- Executive Summary, Résumen, Résumé Analytique -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 The MDGs as a Benchmark for Development Effectiveness -- 2 Country Programs and the MDGs -- 3 Sector Programs and the MDGs...

Home to almost 500 million people, roughly half of whom earn less than a dollar a day, fragile states, until recently known in the World Bank as Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS), have attracted increasing attention. The Bank identified 25 such countries in fiscal 2005 based on their...

This is the sixth Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), covering the year 2002. its findings indicate that the Bank's country, sector, and global programs are consistent with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) themes, increasingly focused on poverty reduction. The review...