Building Capacity to Move Past Conflict and Fragility

Pradhan, Sanjay

doi:10.1596/1020-797X_11_2_6

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Building Capacity to Move Past Conflict and Fragility

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2009-10-01

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Development Outreach 11

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Pradhan, Sanjay

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Capacity building should be an integral part of a country’s national development plan, not an add-on.

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“Pradhan, Sanjay. 2009. Building Capacity to Move Past Conflict and Fragility. World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4577 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

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This debt sustainability analysis (DSA) concludes that Afghanistan’s external and overall risk of debt distress continues to be assessed as high. Afghanistan’s debt sustainability hinges on continued donor grants inflows (currently around 40 percent of GDP) against substantial fiscal and external deficits and downside risks to the economic outlook. A gradual replacement of grants by debt financing leads to high risk of debt distress in the long ...

This debt sustainability analysis (DSA) concludes that Afghanistan’s external and overall risk of debt distress continues to be assessed as high. Afghanistan’s debt sustainability hinges on continued donor grants inflows (currently around 40 percent of GDP) against substantial fiscal and external deficits and downside risks to the ...
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Kerr, Andrew (2018-06-01)

This report, a background note for the South Africa Systematic Country Diagnostic, documents public transport accessibility, focusing particularly on minibus taxis and on poor households, and describe the costs of commuting to work, using the 2013 National Household Travel Survey conducted by Statistics South Africa. It also explains how the minibus taxi industry works, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2013 and 2017 in the minibus taxi industry, and what this implies for costs and accessibility of minibuses to users. It analyzes publicly available data on fatal crashes and police data on violence to describes the risks to users of public transport from fatal crashes and also taxi violence. It also suggest some policy options to improve transport outcomes for the poor.

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This report, a background note for the South Africa Systematic Country Diagnostic, documents public transport accessibility, focusing particularly on minibus taxis and on poor households, and describe the costs of commuting to work, using the 2013 National Household Travel Survey conducted by Statistics South Africa. It also explains ...
Address before the Foreign Policy Association, Minneapolis, January 19, 1949

McCloy, John J. (1949-01-19)

John J. McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, spoke about the elusive matter of international economic recovery. He reviewed the policy environment for the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), economic integration, and international trade imbalances. Europe’s dollar problem is America’s dollar problem.

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John J. McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, spoke about the elusive matter of international economic recovery. He reviewed the policy environment for the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), economic integration, and international trade imbalances. Europe’s dollar problem is America’s dollar problem.

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