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Danish 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.DocumentSocial Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93
Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995The 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).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.DocumentGhana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness
Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.DocumentNational Agricultural Research Systems: Focus on Sustainability
Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999The 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.DocumentInstitution Building through Sustained Partnerships: a process documentation report on lessons learned from involuntary resettlement and rehabilitation training
World Bank Institute, World Bank, 1997Building 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.DocumentThe Alexandria Business Association Small and Microenterprise Project, Egypt
Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1988This 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.DocumentIndonesia's rural finance system: the role of the state and private institutions
Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998Study analyses how effectively organizations have performed their role as agents of Indonesia’s economic growth (availability of resources, volume and quality of investments, resource allocation and appropriation).DocumentFINCA: Insights from a unique approach to village banking [in Costa Rica]
Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998FINCA Costa Rica has been both a leader and a non-conformist in village banking. As one of the first village banking examples in Latin America, the program offers valuable lessons to other village banking institutions. While still retaining the FINCA name, FINCA Costa Rica has split from FINCA International, the US-based NGO that is credited with developing the village banking methodology.