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Title Infrastructure at the crossroads : lessons from 20 years of World Bank experience
Published Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 141 pages) : illustrations
Series World Bank e-Library.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Supporting the right projects and producing results -- 3. Reaching the poor -- 4. Managing expectations about private sector participation -- 5. Ensuring environmental and social sustainability -- 6. Fighting corruption -- 7. Communicating with stakeholders -- App. A. Infrastructure projects rated highly satisfactory by OED -- App. B. Infrastructure projects rated highly unsatisfactory by OED -- App. C. Inspection panel investigations of infrastructure projects
Summary Infrastructure at the Crossroads brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the evolution of the external environment and the Bank's own strategic priorities, and presents lessons about project design and appraisal, poverty focus, private sector participation, environmental and social sustainability, the issue of corruption, and stakeholder communications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 131) and index
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Subject World Bank -- Developing countries
SUBJECT World Bank fast
Banque mondiale. rasuqam
IBRD. unbisn
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- Developing countries
Economic development projects -- Developing countries
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Economic development projects
Infrastructure (Economics)
Desenvolvimento econômico (projeto)
Países em desenvolvimento (infra-estrutura)
Banco de desenvolvimento.
Développement économique.
Infrastructure (Économie politique)
Projet de développement.
Infrastruktur -- U-länder.
Utvecklingsbistånd -- U-länder -- utvärdering.
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE.
Developing countries
Pays en développement.
Form Electronic book
Author World Bank.
ISBN 0821366874
9780821366875
0821366866
9780821366868
1280621958
9781280621956
9786610621958
6610621950