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  Ten years of transformation: macroeconomic lessons

  C. Wyplosz / World Bank, 1999

  This paper, published by the World Bank, surveys the experience of transition economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. It finds that the early years of transition were generally characterised by a collapse in output and an increase in unemployment.
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  Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993-98

  A. Wagstaff, E. van Doorslaer / World Bank, 2002

  This working paper, published by the World Bank, presents and compares two approaches to measuring the fairness of out-of-pocket health care payments, and applies the approaches to data from Vietnam. The first approach defines payments as “catastrophic” if they exceed a certain proportion of income.
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  Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda

  K. Anderson, W. Martin / World Bank, 2005

  This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.
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  Building capacity in post-conflict countries

  World Bank, 2003

  This note, published by the World Bank, looks at the challenge of capacity building in post-conflict countries, including options for creating capacity and the trade offs between speed and longer term impact. It argues that there may be situations where it is necessary to buy in capacity by contracting services to the private sector or non-governmental organisations.
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  With the support of multitudes:using strategic communication to fight poverty through PRSPs

  M. Mozammel, S. Odugbemi / World Bank, 2005

  This paper aims to support the Poverty Reduction Strategy process through demonstrating to policymakers how strategic communication can contribute to achieving their objectives in formulating effective Poverty Reduction Strategies.
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  Books, buildings, and learning outcomes: an impact evaluation of World Bank support to basic education in Ghana

  World Bank, 2004

  This World Bank report assesses the impact of the efforts over the past 15 years toward increasing the quantity and quality of basic education in Ghana.The main findings include:school quality has improved across the country: in poor and non-poor communities alike.
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  The economic advancement of women in Jordan: a country gender assessment

  N. Chamlou / World Bank, 2005

  This country gender assessment (CGA) explores the extent to which extent gender issues contribute to or impede the success of Jordan’s vision for transforming itself into a knowledge-based, diversified, and private sector–driven economy.
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  The economic advancement of women in Jordan: a country gender assessment

  N. Chamlou / World Bank, 2005

  Over the past decades, Jordan has achieved impressive results on a host of social indicators, including the bridging of gender gaps in education. Yet, women's participation in the economic sphere has not kept pace with these impressive gains, mainly due to a host of barriers that women face in accessing opportunities in the public sphere.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: do they matter for children and young people made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS?

  R. Bonnel, M. Temin, F. Tempest / World Bank, 2004

  This study reviews PRSPs and National HIV/AIDS Plans (NSPs) to assess how HIV/AIDS is being addressed in PRSPs.Findings of the study, with regard to content and process of the PRSPs include:the PRSP process has started to add value by bringing HIV/AIDS into national poverty planning processes, but progress in transforming stated objectives into actual programmes is slowPRSP planned
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  Indigenous peoples, poverty and human development in Latin America: 1994-2004

  G. Hall, H. Patrinos / World Bank, 2005

  This executive summary presents findings of a report exploring whether the UN International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, opened in 1994, was accompanied by material and human development gains for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.Findings of the report include:few gains were made in income poverty reduction among Indigenous Peoples during the Indigenous Peoples’ decade (

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