This volume tests the relevance and usefulness of guarantees to public and private actors in developing countries, especially for funding development projects. Not to be confused with export credit guarantees usually accorded to nationals with the aim of stimulating exports and overseas...

The Eritrea Community Development project was established to provide for poor communities especially in the rural and war-devastated areas. The project provided an important platform for harnessing local input in local development efforts, strengthened the capacity of communities to manage, and...

To obtain market financing for an infrastructure project, a private operator needs to be able to provide potential investors assurance that revenue flows to the project will be reliable. Where those revenue flows consist in part of government output-based aid (OBA) subsidy payments, providing...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Understanding World Bank Power -- 2. The Rise of the Bank -- 3. Producing Green Science inside Headquarters -- 4. The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Environmental Knowledge for the World -- 5. Eco-Governmentality and the...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Can't Take It Anymore? -- 2 Making Aid Work -- 3 Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness -- 4 It Pays to Be Ignorant: A Simple Political Economy of Rigorous Program Evaluation -- 5 Solutions When the Solution Is the...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1. Tiger Talk -- 2. Present at the Creation -- 3. "I Can Change the Approval Culture to an Effectiveness Culture" -- 4. High Risk, High Reward -- 5. The Logic Was Textbook Perfect -- 6. Backwards into...