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Banking reform in transition - countries
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996The institutional capacity of banks in transition economies improves faster when a new or parallel private banking system is allowed to emerge than it does when the government tries simply to reform existing state-owned banks.DocumentDeterminants of public expenditure on infrastructure : transportation and communication
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996Governments that are not committed to alleviating poverty - or that are extremely committed to it - spend less from the central budget on infrastructure. Governments with only limited commitment to alleviating poverty adopt strategies to increase the productivity of the poor by investing in infrastructure.DocumentCapacity Development: How can Donors do it Better?
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999DocumentPersonal and Institutional Factors in Capacity Building and Institutional Development
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997The central focus of this paper is an analysis of the concepts of capacity and capacity building and their role in public service management. The civil service plays a central role not only in economic development, but also in the development process as a whole. The focus therefore will be on what constitutes capacity? How is capacity developed or built?DocumentInternational Experience with Institutional Development and administrative Reform: Some Pointers for Success
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999Whatever their stage of development, all countries need to enhance institutional capacity so that they can keep up with advances in this age where the rate of change is greater than at any previous time in history. All lay stress on the central importance of management capacity within the public service.DocumentIntegrating Developing Countries in a Globalising World Economy: Key Points Emerging from the DAC Informal Expert Meeting on Capacity Development for Trade (11 March 1997)
Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999DocumentEvaluation of Finnish Personnel as Volunteers in Development Cooperation
Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1999The aim of this evaluation is to determine the relevance of the Finnish Volunteer Programme through examination of its three main objectives namely, developmental contribution, bridge-building and internationalisation. In respect of each objective, the analysis has been carried out to reflect the results of the programme and the functioning of the organisation.DocumentCivil Service Reform in the Context of Structural Adjustment: Report on a Consultative Workshop, Maastricht, 27 - 28 July 1995
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1995DocumentDanish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.DocumentThe Aga Khan Rural Support Program: A Third Evaluation
Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995AKRSP, in its thirteenth year of operation, continues to be an effective instrument to improve community productivity and family welfare in Pakistan's Northern Areas and Chitral. Improvements have resulted from the program's interventions in productive investments, in production-support investments, such as access roads, in training, and in financial and technical services.Pages