A World Bank Country Study

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World Bank HIV/AIDS Interventions: Ex-ante and Ex-post Evaluation

iv Foreword The AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest development challenges of the 20th century. Since 1986 the World Bank has supported member country efforts to fight the epidemic in many ways, including lending, economic and sector analysis, grant support, technical assistance, and policy advice. This paper is the first comprehensive desk study of all World Bank HIV/AIDS-related activities f...

Adjustment and Growth: Macroeconomic Performance of the IMF and World Bank Integrated model for Selected Mediterranean and MENA Developing Countries

accentuate on the programs advocated by the IMF and the World Bank from the model known as the "Integrated Model IMF-World Bank". This research makes a comprehensive evaluation of the applicability of this model to analyze the performance of adjustment programs in the case of six countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, namely, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Morocco...

A World Bank Country Study Ecuador Gender Review Issues and Recommendations Ecuador Gender Review Issues and Recommendations

World Bank Country Studies are among the many reports originally prepared for internal use as part of the continuing analysis by the Bank of the economic and related conditions of its developing member countries and of its dialogues with the govermnents. Some of the reports are published in this series with the least possible delay for the use of governments and the academic, business and finan...

A World Bank Country Study

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Addressing Health Workforce Distribution Concerns: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Develop Rural Retention Strategies in Cameroon

Background Nearly every nation in the world faces shortages of health workers in remote areas. Cameroon is no exception to this. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is currently considering several rural retention strategies to motivate qualified health personnel to practice in remote rural areas.   Methods To better calibrate these mechanisms and to develop evidence-based retention strategies...