Poverty Reduction and the World Bank: Progress in Fiscal 1998 (Document of the World Bank)
By World Bank.
Description
Poverty reduction is now more firmly at the center of the Bank's country assistance strategies, with increased efforts to improve the quality of poverty assessments, enhanced monitoring and evaluation of poverty outcomes, and the integration of quantitative with participatory methods. This annual publication reports on World Bank activities in fiscal year 1998, which continued to be aimed at fostering labor-based growth while investing in the development of human capital and providing safety nets. At the same time, Bank activities reflected several new themes: the need to protect the p...
ISBN(s)
082134384X, 9780821343845
