... Acknowledgments T his evaluationof the World Banks experience with natural disasters was done by the IndependentEvaluation GroupWorld Bank at the request of the Banks Board of Executive Directors ... International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) International Development Association Inter-American Development BankIndependentEvaluationGroupIndependentEvaluation GroupWorld Bank ... countriesPrevention WorldBank I Vaillancourt, Denise II Hahn Gaubatz, Judith III Title IV WorldBank operations evaluation study HC60.A4575 2005 WorldBank InfoShop IndependentEvaluationGroup E-mail: pic@worldbank.org...
... characteristics of the IndependentEvaluationof the Spanish Banking Sector programme are • Performance of an independentevaluationof the health and resilience of the Spanish banking sector • 8/18 Centred ... required • Banks without capital needs Group ) Categori sation Categorisation of the Approval of final banks into the public support and MoU groups restructuring plans on the basis of the results of ... coming weeks by those banking groups which have been identified in the stress test as having capital needs, banks will be classified into four Groups: • Group is made up of those banks for which no...
... System of Multilateral Development Banks IBRD = International Bankof Reconstruction and Development of the WorldBank Group, IDA = International Development Association from the WorldBank Group, ... Association from the WorldBank Group, IFC = International Finance Corporation from the WorldBank Group, IDB = Inter-American Development Bank (Ordinary Capital), FSO/IDB = Fund of Special Operations ... Annual Commitments of Multilateral Development Banks, 2000–2010 (by institution, US$ billion) IBRD = International Bankof Reconstruction and Development of the WorldBank Group, IDA = International...
... under Section 21A of the Companies Act 1973 Registration number 2004/007117/10 Design: Ranch World Bank, 2005, Review ofWorldBank conditionality World Bank, 2005b, Review ofWorldBank conditionality: ... that the Bank would commit to ending its damaging use of conditionality in poor countries The resulting paper, ‘Review ofWorldBank Conditionality’ (World Bank, 2005), committed the Bank to five ... support” (see World Bank, 2006) The Bank has a very limited definition of ownership The Bank s definition seems to focus on government acceptance of a given set of policies The Bank emphasises...
... record of profitability, on the basis of the discounted cash flow value; (ii) for an enterprise which, not being a proven going concern, demonstrates lack of profitability, on the basis of the ... of a reasonable part of the salaries and wages of foreign personnel; and, on liquidation of the investment or earlier termination of the employment, allow immediate transfer of all savings from ... applicable market rate of exchange at the time of the transfer (3) In the case of transfers under Section (1) of this Guideline, and without prejudice to Sections and of Guideline IV where they...
... D.C : The WorldBankWorldBank (1995) “The WorldBank and Legal Technical Assistance: Initial Lessons”, Policy Research Working Paper No 1414, Washington D.C : The WorldBankWorldBank (1998) ... The WorldBankWorldBank (2004a) “Initiatives in Legal and Judicial Reform”, Washington D.C : The WorldBankWorldBank (2004b) “Implementation Completion Report: West Bank and Gaza”, www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet?pcont=details& ... Washington D.C : The WorldBankWorldBank (1999) “Court Performance Around the World: A Comparative Perspective” Technical Paper No 430, Washington D.C : The WorldBankWorldBank (2002a) “Speech...
... Minister of Health of Ethiopia; the Secretary of Health and Population of Nepal; the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); the US Surgeon General; the Director of the Office ... Global Burden of Disease group to develop an algorithm to estimate, from various data sources, prevalence levels of infertility as a cause of disability The estimated number of women worldwide who ... Finalization of a list of sexual health indicators and identification of opportunities for field testing Development of sexuality counselling guidelines Continuation of work on revision of ICD...
... Assessments………………………………………………………… … ….7 The WorldBank and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)………………………… The Need for Increased Monitoring and EvaluationofWorldBank Loans…………… ….… 11 The WorldBank and Workers’ ... Cause Authoritarian Rule? WorldBank (2000) Paul Collier, Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and Their Implications for Policy, WorldBank (2000) 18 THE WORLDBANK AND THE WORLD COMMISSION ON DAMS ... The WorldBank and Pesticides…………………………………………………… ……… ………21 12 The WorldBank and Gender……… …………………………….…………… ………… …… 23 13 The WorldBank and User Fees……………………………………………………… …….… … 25 14 The World...
... of Selected Initiatives at the World Bank, updated March, 1999 Accounting for Natural Resources in Ecuador, John Kellenberg, World Bank, September 1996 10 Word Development Indicators, World Bank, ... Woods Project The WorldBank s Genuine Savings Indicator: a Useful Measure of Sustainability? Bretton Woods Project A useful tool for the holistic Bank, or “genuine nonsense”? WorldBank documents ... scenario is discouraged by the Bank s algorithm”.29 Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics points out a number of technical problems with the Bank s measurements of resource rents Recalculating...
... the poverty rate and the number of poor in all six regions of the developing world Between 2005 and 2008 the percentage living below $1.25 a day and the number of people fell in all six regions ... similar trends 14% of the population of the developing world lived below $1 a day in 2008 801 million people—down from 31% in 1990 and 42% in 1981 43% lived below $2 a day in 2008 (2.47 billion); ... over three-yearly intervals since 1981 The overall percentage of the population of the developing world living below $1.25 a day in 2008 is 22%, slightly more than half its value in 1990, while...
... (hnassery@worldbank.org) or HNP Advisory Service (healthpop@worldbank.org, tel 202 473-2256, fax 202 522-3234) For more information, see also www.worldbank.org/ hnppublications THE WORLDBANK 1818 ... The share of health PaCa Ly Taking the time derivative of the log of this ratio, we find that the rate of change in this share equals the rate of change of P L , which is the rate of population ... entirely those of the authors, and not represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent Correspondence Details: Daniel Cotlear, World Bank, MSN G 7-701,...
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... and partly because it is often not adapted to the reality of our sample of countries that have relatively poor investment climates and low levels of economic development Of course, the optimal ... central part of most countries’ development strategies Today, there are more than 160 national IPAs and more than 250 subnational ones worldwide.2 This trend is relatively new—only a handful of these ... countries For example, what volume of resources countries spend on investment promotion? What are M / The Effectiveness of Promotion Agencies the main activities of the IPAs? To what extent is the...
... extension of the methodology consists of testing the existence of a linear relationship between the quality of the investment climate and the IPA effectiveness.24 30 / The Effectiveness of Promotion ... elasticity coefficient of 0.l6 versus 0.35) Similar large differences in the impact of the promotion effort are also depicted on a function of the level of the development of the country where ... investment climate Similar large differences in the impact of the promotion effort are also depicted as a function of the level of the development of the country where the IPA is located The above results...
... minister, a board of directors—often composed of both private and public representatives—or both The level of political visibility varies considerably across agencies, but only 10 percent of IPAs surveyed ... frequency of meetings and inputs, degree of private sector representation on board) Reporting arrangements (board, government body, prime minister or president) Overseas offices Number of mandates ... promote investment instead of establishing their own offices abroad Key Internal Characteristics of Investment Promotion Agencies and Their Roles / 47 Box 5.1 Snapshot of a Typical IPA in a Developing...
... remains the main source of financing The effectiveness of IPAs needs to be qualified: it is highly dependent on the quality of the investment climate and the level of development of the country in ... sharing of space, to save rent The two opposite effects might explain the absence of significant empirical results 52 / The Effectiveness of Promotion Agencies Technical Appendix The influence of ... Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), conducted a survey of more than 100 investment promotion agencies around the world The questionnaire was developed with the active participation of...
... any Names of departments/divisions (For this information, you may provide a diagram of the current structure of the agency.) Number of offices Number of staff employed in regional offices (full-time ... number of activities per agency Total Preinvestment activities Arranging visiting missions of foreign investors Of which: airport pickups Of which: organizing meetings with government officials Of ... (full-time equivalent) Percent of total agency budget (if applicable) In which countries Percent of total agency budget Is it: via your own agency’s own offices number of offices (please indicate)...