A case for aid : building a consensus for development assistance

This publication includes readings related to the U.N. International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002:(a) " A Partnership for Development and Peace, " a keynote speech given by World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn, two weeks before the M...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 2002
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Table of Contents:
  • Contenido: Pt. 1: A partnership for development and peace / James D. Wolfensohn
  • Pt. 2: Making the case for aid / Nicholas Stern
  • Pt. 3: The role and effectiveness of development assistance: lessons from World Bank experience / Ian Goldin, Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • 1. The meaning of development and the role of policy, institutions, and markets
  • 2. Sources of growth and poverty reduction
  • Cross-country evidence on the effectiveness of assistance
  • 4. Effectiveness of Bank action at the sectoral, program, and project level
  • 5. Effectiveness of global interventions
  • Conclusions: learning lessons to move forward
  • Annex: Measuring the World Bank's development effectiveness and managing for results