Investing in people : the World Bank in action
Investing in people is at the core of the World Bank ' s work. Bank lending for education, health, nutrition, population, and other aspects of human resource development has increased sharply in recent years and is now averaging more that
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Washington, D.C.
World Bank
1995
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and data note
- Pt. 1. World Bank support for investing in people
- Pt. 2. Examples of Bank assistance
- Improving outcomes by concentrating resources to get the most value: 1. Bringing Pakistani girls to the front of the class
- 2. Stipends to keep Bangladeshi girls in school
- 3. Closing the life expectancy gap in Hungary
- 4. Targeting Indonesia's poor
- 5. Improving the performance of Tunisia's public hospitals
- 6. Integrating reproductive health care in Zimbabwe
- Listening, learning, and working with communities and households : 7. Food coupons for better nutrition in Honduras
- 8. Enlisting participation in India-on a grand scale
- 9. Reaching Mexican children early
- 10. Fueling Nigerian women's entrepreneurial drive
- 11. Working with poor communities in the Philippines-for better health
- 12. Listening to Tanzanian communities-to find out what's really wrong
- Collaborating with partners: 13. Partnerships fighting AIDS in Brazil
- 14. Results from long collaboration in Tunisia
- 15. Turning the tables for Zambia's health system
- 16. Controlling riverblindness in West Africa
- 17. New-and sensible-ways of doing business in Africa