Despite impressive success in improving living conditions in many Caribbean countries, poverty still persists throughout the region. This study seeks to improve our understanding of poverty in the Caribbean and the current efforts to address it. It analyzes the causes and characteristics of...

This paper presents a conceptual framework for the strategic management of government agencies in developing and transition economies. The framework, which integrates the New Institutional Economics, Management Theory, and Public Choice Theory, also models strategies for providing development...

This study reviews the African Region of the World Bank's current thinking on cost sharing and the poor as apllied in Sub-Saharan Africa. It inventories country experiences and Bank activities in cost sharing for education and health, reviews African experiences with the implementation of cost...