In contrast to traditional economic development that focuses almost exclusively of increasing a nation’s GDP for poverty alleviation, social development emerged as an important development strategy which seeks a broader…
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The Government of Cambodia (GoC) carried out an Integrated Fiduciary Assessment and Public Expenditure Review (IFAPER) in partnership with the World Bank. The IFAPER aimed to assess progress in implementation…
DFID DRC supports education activity to improve equitable access to education and learning outcomes for children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Principal Consultant, Catherine Dom, provided advisory inputs…
Vietnam has made substantial progress in recent years against both the Vietnam Development Goals (VDGs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It has shown consistent improvement in social indicators, such…
The New Coalition for Food Security, formed in 2003, was a landmark in the evolution of approaches to address food insecurity in Ethiopia. In order to take forward the agenda…
Rwanda is making good progress towards achieving the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). DFID are an important development partner for Rwanda, providing resources to the health sector of up…
In 2009 Vietnam developed a new Business Sector Programme Support (BSPS) aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of Vietnamese growth and export-oriented enterprises in order to create decent jobs. The second…
The World Bank has been engaged with the Kazakh Government in the area of public finance through a programmatic Public Expenditure Review (PER). In 2009 the work included a review…
With small holder agriculture employing more than 80% of the rural labour force in Malawi, increasing smallholder agricultural productivity is recognised as one of the key routes to rapid and…
In September 2008, the Government of Nepal announced a budget that was highly ambitious on expenditure and revenue, but which was appropriate to the political context and the then fragile…
