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  Social Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  The principal message of this study is that good macroeconomic policies and measures—combined with relevant sectoral policies and appropriate public expenditure allocation—provide a favorable environment for accelerating savings and investment, both necessary for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction (Figure 1).
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  The Aga Khan Rural Support Program: A Third Evaluation

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  AKRSP, 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.
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  The Caribbean Region: A Review on World Bank Assistance

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1994

  The small island economies of the Caribbean pose conceptual and operational questions for the Bank—foremost, how can it assist these countries' development efforts in a cost-effective way?
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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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  Electronic Learning Guidebook on Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM)

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 1998

  Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) refers to the involvement of irrigation users in all aspects of irrigation management, and at all levels. This electronic learning guidebook is a self-paced learning tool for acquiring knowledge about PIM and how to implement and promote PIM at the country level.
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  Bibliography on structural adjustment

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative, World Bank, 1998
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  CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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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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