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Searching with a thematic focus on Strengthening economic planning and analysis, Agriculture and food, Aid and debt, Capacity building in aid and debt, Food and agriculture markets

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  Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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  National Agricultural Research Systems: Focus on Sustainability

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999

  The Bank's lending experience shows three factors to be essential for preserving the research systems: borrower appreciation of the nature of agricultural research and of its role in economic growth, appropriate research planning and operational efficiency, and the relevance of research priorities.
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  Institution Building through Sustained Partnerships: a process documentation report on lessons learned from involuntary resettlement and rehabilitation training

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 1997

  Building institutional capacity to plan and conduct training on development topics is a key issue in today's world, for in the end external agencies can facilitate development, but rational groups must undertake and sustain their own growth. This report therefore treats the critical issues to be considered when developing partnerships.
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  The Alexandria Business Association Small and Microenterprise Project, Egypt

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1988

  This case study is designed to go behind the financial data (which show that ABA is indeed moving to financial sustainability) and place the project within the culture of the microfinance world as presently constituted.
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  Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Aid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems.
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  Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.
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  Strengthening National Capacity for HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Strategic Planning is essential for a effective response to the epidemic. UNDP has extensive experience and long involvement in the strengthening of national planning capacity in all operational regions.
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  Governance and Policy Formulation

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between politician and administrator Respective roles and functions of politicians, administrators and civil society: consideration of institutional issues raised by these.
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  Incentives and Provider Payment Methods [in the health sector]

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1995

  The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This paper examines provider incentives as well as administrative costs, and institutional conditions for successful implementation associated with provider payment alternatives.

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