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Tài liệu THE WORLD BANK’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTION PLAN 2010-2015 pdf
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13/02/2014, 10:20
... convincing results Using the health systems strengthening platform Health systems strengthening (HSS) has developed out of the tensions between vertical/disease-specific programs and horizontal/system-wide ... HSS as a core framework It is possible to lose some focus on the immediate needs and requirements of strong reproductive health interventions in the push towards systems strengthening And as ... commitments for HSS, RH issues are not fully addressed within the current emphasis on health systems strengthening 50 A recent IEG evaluation found that substantive analysis of population issues rarely...
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Integrating Gender into the World Bank’s Work: A Strategy for Action potx
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22/03/2014, 21:20
... Reduction Support Credits); • the criteria used to assess the poverty reduction focus of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Joint Staff Assessments (JSAs); • the criteria used to assess the ... gender dimension into the criteria now used to assess the quality of PRSPs in the Joint Staff Assessment (JSA).37 This will assist countries in understanding where the gender dimension is critical ... dimension into the criteria used to assess the poverty reduction focus of CASs and sector strategy papers For purposes of monitoring and quality assurance, it is important that the CAS discusses the...
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The World Bank’s Genuine Savings Indicator: a Useful Measure of Sustainability? pptx
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29/03/2014, 09:20
... other services it is also important to assess how equitable is the service delivery and outcomes Environmental thresholds The Bank assumes that the four types of capital it identifies are substitutable, ... in other words that the economy is a self-sufficient system, rather than a subsystem of a finite ecosystem, dependent upon the latter for inputs, sinks and life-support functions The “weak sustainability” ... dismissed as over-simplistic Beyond this, however, there is also the serious question of how meaningful it is to try to produce an estimate of national sustainability rather than assess the benefits...
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An update to the World Bank’s estimates of consumption poverty in the developing world* pot
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29/03/2014, 09:20
... across regions Uneven progress across the Bank s regions, but (for the first time) progress in all regions Dramatic progress in East Asia Looking back to the early 198 0s, East Asia was the ... However, the poor survey coverage for MENA creates uncertainty about the estimated poverty rates For the first time since 1981 we have seen less than half the population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) ... substantially revised and updated version of the Bank s website PovcalNet will be released, which will allow public access to the primary data, to replicate these estimates and to make estimates for selected...
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The World Bank Group’s Response to the Global Economic Crisisch03
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30/08/2016, 15:38
... excessive numbers of missions are undermining the Bank s usefulness against the crisis In terms of transaction costs and delay, the Bank is ‘not very good at doing business. ’ Countries reported mixed ... Corporate Strategy and Communications The World Bank Group s Response | 23 BOX 3.1 SPECIAL THEMATIC CRISIS RESPONSE INITIATIVES The Bank s crisis-response strategy included thematic initiatives to ... appreciated the Bank s just-in-time review of 28 | The World Bank Group s Response to the Global Economic Crisis the provisions for special private sector support as part of the government s stimulus package...
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Tài liệu Women of the World Women''''s Health in India doc
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13/02/2014, 06:20
... household goods, cash) In many instances, the demand for these gifts does not end with the marriage but continues, as the husband s family persists in making U .S Census Bureau, the Official Statistics™ ... in the socioeconomic status of women and access to health care services among the states The high levels of maternal mortality are especially distressing because the majority of these deaths could ... Kerala has the lowest, consistent with the different levels of socio-economic development in these states Several studies have found that one of the reasons for the poor health Mother s education,...
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Tài liệu PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY – DIRECTIONS FOR THE WORLD BANK GROUP docx
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16/02/2014, 06:20
... environment is sound or at least moving in the right 56 World Bank (2001a) World Bank (2001a) 58 The World Bank has developed a number of databases of indices, namely: The World Bank s World Business Environment ... likely to use than the rich, for example, stand-pipes for water The funding of the subsidy also presents various options ranging from cross-subsidies, where other users pay a “tax” on their service, ... incumbents may try to block the most successful new businesses Figure 2: Regulation of business entry 149 Australia Mozambique 112 19 Number of procedures Number of business days Official cost of...
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Tài liệu THE WORLD BANK AND THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER ADJUSTING TO MULTIPOLARITY AT THE SECOND DECIMAL POINT doc
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16/02/2014, 10:20
... on the basis of an ‘open, transparent and merit-based process’ Despite many such assurances progress in this domain remains to be seen The Board is resident and functions in continuous session, ... countries and DTCs: this reclassification alone raised the share of DTC voting power in the Bank from 40% to 42.6%.32 In terms of assessing the two phases of the voice reform process, the issue of ... reform issues since the time of the Monterrey Consensus the Bank has counted all middle and low-income countries as DTCs and high-income countries as developed countries, based on the Bank s World...
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Tài liệu DEMOCRATIZING THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND THE WORLD BANK: GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY pptx
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16/02/2014, 11:20
... to the countries that provide funds as “shareholders,” and to those who borrow funds as “clients.” Some argue, on the basis of the reassessment, that the Bank should less, others that it should ... harmful The multiplicity of objectives—including the confusion of means with ends—thwarts the possibility of assessing success Not long after the East Asian crisis began, the IMF claimed success for ... imports, as a result of which their problems had spread to other countries Keynes helped establish the IMF to address these concerns He successfully argued that the cure for recessions was fiscal...
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Tài liệu Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and the IMF in Africa pdf
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16/02/2014, 11:20
... LIC-FLIC The World Bank IMF SAPs were the second prong of the massive assault that Washington mounted against the South” during the 198 0s The other prong was “low-intensity conflicts” (LIC), the U .S ... neo-colonialism: the colonisers became technical assistants; I would call them technical assassins; and they suggested, recommended to us the financiers; they told us about the financial advantages That is ... growth rates in parts of the developing world as well as successful national liberation struggles The Administration s sense of “a rising threat from the South” was fed by the humiliating U .S defeat...
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Tài liệu Good Governance and Aid Effectiveness: The World Bank and Conditionality docx
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16/02/2014, 12:20
... acquire them?” Consensus on this subject remains elusive when the discussion moves from general goals to the specific means to achieve them The lack of clear prescriptions for the successful implementation ... countries It scrutinizes the shifts in policies and strategies of the Bank during the 199 0s as well as the research it generated to support them The wide array of issues under “governance” occupies ... what they and how they it Assessing The World Bank at the Millennium, forthright former Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz asserts: “Views about development have changed in the World Bank, as they...
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Tài liệu The World Bank in Russia Russian Economic Report: Moderating Risks, Bolstering Growth ppt
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20/02/2014, 20:20
... out of the 183 economies assessed in the Doing Business 2012 report This ranking suggests that the regulatory environment in Russia is, on average, less business- friendly than other countries (Figure ... with being the most business- friendly While Doing Business does not capture all aspects of the business environment that matter to firms – aspects such as security, macroeconomic stability and ... Russia s 2012 Doing Business ranking The success of an economy depends in large measure on ensuring that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are able to business easily In leading economies, SMEs...
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THE WORLD BANK - PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE INSOLVENCY AND CREDITOR RIGHTS SYSTEMS pptx
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06/03/2014, 10:20
... facilities to the needs of customers and businesses 52 The law should permit both possessory and non-possessory security interests over tangible assets In the case of security over chattels, requiring ... legal issues must be resolved, though in some cases they are susceptible to summary dispositions Nevertheless, in cases of a genuine petition there is a risk that the debtor s business will be ... decline and loss of customers Similarly, critical disputes between parties must be resolved as quickly as possible, especially where these threaten to halt the business or the use of assets The court...
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PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK: The World Bank Washington, D.C. doc
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06/03/2014, 10:20
... this process Transparency demands that the reasons for decisions and the results and costs of these decisions be accessible, clear and communicated to the wider general public Transparency also ... (manifested as arrears in many countries) The lack of comprehensiveness in the coverage of fiscal operations also leads to weak PEM systems This is associated with a lack of transparency and the ... on costs, outputs and outcomes is essential Accurate and timely Transparency and accountability require that decisions, together with their basis and the results and the costs, be accessible,...
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UNICEF-WHO-The World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates doc
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07/03/2014, 04:20
... does not warrant inclusion into the joint analysis dataset UNICEF and WHO evaluate survey estimates for inclusion in the joint analysis dataset on a case-by-case basis In some cases, survey estimates ... of these classifications An annex to this document lists the countries included in each of the regional classifications In those instances where conversion of a prevalence estimate based on the ... for the UN and WHO regions were obtained using Statistical Analysis Systems package version 9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA) Estimates for MDG and UNICEF regions and World Bank income groups...
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To Cut or Not to Cut? That is the (Central Bank’s) Question In Search of the Neutral Interest Rate in Latin America pdf
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15/03/2014, 14:20
... different currencies 23 Evidence on these issues is still to be presented But a deeper discussion of the role of MaPPs as complement or substitute to standard interest rate polices deserves better attention ... large banks to use the non-remunerated part of the required reserves on time deposits to acquire small bank assets Cut the "additional" bank- fshort reserve requirements on cash deposits to percent ... (2011) 24 The analysis on MaPP seems to be symmetric, except for its fiscal cost If capital inflows are sterilized (purchasing reserves with domestic paper) the quasi-fiscal cost increases Capital...
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THE WORLD BANK & RULE OF LAW REFORMS: GORDON BARRON doc
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22/03/2014, 21:20
... poor.” As the above list shows, the Bank speaks in terms of effective “laws”, “legal institutions”, and the ROL”, and it pursues these objectives through the conditions it attaches to loans; in ... TG s “most serious challenge” - is thus considerably reduced.36 Despite the change in the role of the state, however, other issues raised by LDM scholars still appear to linger: the issue of foreign ... – or should be – collected as part of one of the Bank s Legal and Judicial Sector Assessments The second raises the idea of changing legal culture Whereas the former suggests adapting rules to...
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Microfinance Meets the Market - The World Bank Development Research Group doc
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22/03/2014, 23:20
... that they are not as dependent on subsidies as the tables here suggest This is only speculation, of course, and others fear that instead institutions will sacrifice part of their social missions ... for the diseconomies of transacting small loans 17 These relationships are shown in three figures Figure shows that it is operating costs, rather than capital costs or loan loss provisions, that ... microfinance We then seek answers to some of these questions by drawing on a data set that includes most of the world s leading microfinance institutions The evidence suggests that investors seeking...
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