Based on previously untapped archival material, this chapter discusses the establishment of the operations evaluation function at the World Bank between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, and the conflicting visions that shaped it. The birth of the operations evaluation function at the Bank was...

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out-of-sample predictive performance of empirical models...

Stakeholder involvement plays an important and critical role in project performance. In Guinea, the Administration and Control of Major Projects and Public Procurement (ACMPPP) has initiated a huge reforms and reorganizations of development projects implementation since 2014. This has involved...

The Southwestern Poverty Reduction Project is widely recognized as a successful project in achieving its goals in China. Its monitoring system played a very important role in project management. To ensure project impact, the system employed both traditional and innovative methods in monitoring....

When a group of students and designers took on the task of rebuilding Patricia Broussard's East Biloxi home, they knew that building an elevated home to a high standard of quality and sustainability on a very limited budget would require a new approach. The project, known as “the treehouse,”...

Regional problems of the European Union are economical inequalities between regions which are being solved with financing of development projects. Agriculture should be fitted into that concept, so it would become more noticeable in the budget of the EU. The challenge for the Republic of Croatia...

Madagascar, Africa's largest island state, remains one of the least-developed countries in the world after decades of slow economic growth, unstable governance and political turmoil. About 65 per cent of its population lives in rural settings, mainly relying on subsistence-oriented farming...

It is known that the natural concept of projective representation of a group has also significance for permutation representations (-sets). In this paper the implications of the corresponding idea for -groups are explored. As a consequence, different relations with some well-known concepts as...