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  • India's Growth Story (English)

    India has attained much economic success in the past three decades. Yet an economic deceleration in recent years has generated worried commentaries about the country's growth outlook. This paper offers...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8599 Document Date: October 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Blum,Florian Michael,Gupta,Poonam,Jain,Dhruv

  • Decentralization and service delivery (English)

    Dissatisfied with centralized approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralizing responsibility for these services to lower-level, locally elected governments...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3603 Document Date: May 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Khemani,Stuti,Shah,Shekhar

  • Development outreach 6 (1) : Client power making services work for the poor (English)

    In this issue: Special report -Client power: making services work for the poor. The Path to Education: A Multi-Dimensional Approach. Making Services Work for Poor People -guest editorial. Voice and Accountability...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 33746 Document Date: March 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Duflo,Esther Caroline,Giusti, Daniele,Glennerster,Rachel,Goetz, Anne Marie,Jenkins, Rob,Kremer,Michael Robert,Lochoro, Peter,Maniple, Everd,Martens, Bertin,Mogedal, Sigrun,Odaga, John,Paul,Samuel,Petesch,Patti L.,Ramphele,Mamphela,Reinikka,Ritva S.,Savage,David Thomas James,Srivastava,Vivek

  • World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people (English)

    The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education...

    Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 26895 Document Date: October 7, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Commins,Stephen,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Filmer,Deon P.,Hammer, Jeffrey,Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Reinikka,Ritva S.,Shah,Shekhar,Soucat, Agnès

  • World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people (Chinese)

    The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education...

    Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 26895 Document Date: September 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Commins,Stephen,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Filmer,Deon P.,Hammer, Jeffrey,Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Reinikka,Ritva S.,Shah,Shekhar,Soucat, Agnès

  • World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people (Russian)

    The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education...

    Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 26895 Document Date: September 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Commins,Stephen,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Filmer,Deon P.,Hammer, Jeffrey,Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Reinikka,Ritva S.,Shah,Shekhar,Soucat, Agnès

  • World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people (Vietnamese)

    The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education...

    Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 26895 Document Date: June 30, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Commins,Stephen,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Filmer,Deon P.,Hammer, Jeffrey,Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Reinikka,Ritva S.,Shah,Shekhar,Soucat, Agnès

  • World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people (Arabic)

    The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education...

    Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 26895 Document Date: January 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Commins,Stephen,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Filmer,Deon P.,Hammer, Jeffrey,Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Reinikka,Ritva S.,Shah,Shekhar,Soucat, Agnès

  • Decentralization briefing notes (English)

    The notes in this report are designed to highlight the broad range of issues that need to be considered with regard to decentralization. They are intended to provide brief overviews of the many different...

    Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 19683 Document Date: July 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Author: Kerr, Graham,King,Elizabeth M.,Kolehmainem-Aitkin, Riita-Liisa,Lutz,Ernst,Mclean,Keith W.,Rondinelli, Dennis,Sewell,David O.,Shah,Anwar M.,De Tommaso,Giulio,Wiest, Dana,Litvack,Jennie I.,Seddon,Jessica,Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Blair, Harry,Esmail,Talib B. K.,Ford,James F. G.,Hofman,Bert

  • Decentralizing borrowing powers (English)

    The note highlights the importance of sound intergovernmental fiscal relations, and proper regulation for successful sub-national borrowing, and illustrates the potential macroeconomic hazards of decentralizing...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 21250 Document Date: January 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Junaid Kamal

  • Decentralization briefing notes (Albanian)

    The notes in this report are designed to highlight the broad range of issues that need to be considered with regard to decentralization. They are intended to provide brief overviews of the many different...

    Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 19683 Document Date: January 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Kerr, Graham,King,Elizabeth M.,Kolehmainem-Aitkin, Riita-Liisa,Lutz,Ernst,Mclean,Keith W.,Rondinelli, Dennis,Sewell,David O.,Shah,Anwar M.,De Tommaso,Giulio,Wiest, Dana,Litvack,Jennie I.,Seddon,Jessica,Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Blair, Harry,Esmail,Talib B. K.,Ford,James F. G.,Hofman,Bert

  • Rethinking decentralization in developing countries (English)

    This paper draws on the growing experience with decentralization in developing countries, to explore how a wide range of variables can affect decentralization efforts, and, how policies, and incentives...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 21491 Document Date: September 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Litvack,Jennie I.,Ahmad,Junaid Kamal,Bird,Richard M.