Knowledge Based Country Programs

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464802263

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Knowledge-Based Country Programs by The World Bank Pdf

The World Bank Group is currently engaged in reflection and debate on how to improve the delivery of development support. Part of this debate concerns strengthening the knowledge agenda. The findings of this evaluation are particularly relevant because they speak directly to questions that the institution is deliberating. In particular, they address four key aspects of the “science of delivery†?: the role of local partners or local knowledge hubs; consultation with clients and other stakeholders in the process of designing knowledge services; delivery of knowledge on issues that are relevant to the client; and improving the way the Bank Group learns from upper-middle-income countries and intermediating this knowledge to other countries. The evaluation assesses knowledge-based activities in nine country programs selected from 48 knowledge-intensive programs supported by the Bank Group. It identifies the factors in the success or failure of those activities as they contribute to policy making or development outcomes. It also identifies areas of strength for the Bank Group as well as areas of weakness or risk. The main objective of the evaluation is to learn lessons from practices in a focus group of high-income and upper-middle-income countries that have knowledge-based programs with the Bank Group. The findings have implications for the Bank Group’s knowledge work, including governance and incentives. Over the past 15 years, Bank Group country programs have shifted toward more intensive delivery of knowledge services relative to lending, and this trend is expected to continue. The evaluation was done on economic and sector work and non-lending technical assistance activities selected from a purposive sample of knowledge-intensive country programs. In addition, the evaluation assessed International Finance Corporation Advisory Services for their synergy with the Bank’s analytical and advisory activities. The lessons from this evaluation could help leverage the Bank Group’s global knowledge to meet the needs of countries that mainly rely on knowledge services and are not pressed for financing.

Author : Paul J. Gertler,Sebastian Martinez,Patrick Premand,Laura B. Rawlings,Christel M. J. Vermeersch
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464807800

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Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition by Paul J. Gertler,Sebastian Martinez,Patrick Premand,Laura B. Rawlings,Christel M. J. Vermeersch Pdf

The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates real-world examples to present practical guidelines for designing and implementing impact evaluations. Readers will gain an understanding of impact evaluations and the best ways to use them to design evidence-based policies and programs. The updated version covers the newest techniques for evaluating programs and includes state-of-the-art implementation advice, as well as an expanded set of examples and case studies that draw on recent development challenges. It also includes new material on research ethics and partnerships to conduct impact evaluation. The handbook is divided into four sections: Part One discusses what to evaluate and why; Part Two presents the main impact evaluation methods; Part Three addresses how to manage impact evaluations; Part Four reviews impact evaluation sampling and data collection. Case studies illustrate different applications of impact evaluations. The book links to complementary instructional material available online, including an applied case as well as questions and answers. The updated second edition will be a valuable resource for the international development community, universities, and policy makers looking to build better evidence around what works in development.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464803772

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The Big Business of Small Enterprises by World Bank Pdf

The World Bank Group promotes small and medium enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and targeted interventions. Targeting means focusing benefits on one size-class of firms to the exclusion of others. Targeted support for SMEs is a big business for the World Bank Group, averaging around $3 billion a year in commitments, expenditures, and gross exposure over the 2006-12 period. In the context of broader reforms, such targeted support can be a powerful tool. Targeting SMEs is not an end in itself, but a means to create economies that can employ more people and create more opportunity for citizens to achieve prosperity. A thriving and growing SME sector is associated with rapidly growing economies. A central challenge is to level the economic playing field by ensuring dynamic markets; strengthening market-support institutions; and removing constraints to participation. IEG found that financial sector development can have both a pro-growth and pro-poor impact by alleviating SMEs' financing constraints, enabling new entry of firms and entrepreneurs and better resource allocation. Layered on top of this are targeted forms of assistance; these interventions may build on a foundation of more systemic reforms, may come in tandem with them, or may in fact be a means to build systemic reforms from the bottom up. Any credible justification of targeted support to SMEs must be focused on establishing well-functioning markets and institutions, not simply providing a temporary supply of benefits to a small group of firms during a project's lifespan. Thus, targeted interventions need to leverage resources to produce broader benefits for institutions and markets. To make targeted support for SMEs more effective, the World Bank Group needs to do several things: Clarify its approach to targeted support to SMEs; Enhance the support's relevance and additionality; Institute a tailored research agenda; Strengthen guidance and quality control for such support; Reform MIGA s Small Investment Program.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264193307

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Supporting Investment in Knowledge Capital, Growth and Innovation by OECD Pdf

This work shows that business investment in knowledge-based capital is a key to future productivity growth and living standards and sets out recommendations in the fields of: innovation; taxation; entrepreneurship and business development; corporate reporting; big data; competition and measurement.

Author : Lopes, Nuno Vasco,Baguma, Rehema
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522588740

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Developing Knowledge Societies for Distinct Country Contexts by Lopes, Nuno Vasco,Baguma, Rehema Pdf

Through knowledge societies, people have capabilities to acquire information and to transform that information into knowledge and information, which empowers them to enhance their lives and to contribute to the social-economic development. The practical application of knowledge into innovation and how this process from research to development to application can be achieved is a domain that is not yet very well understood. Developing Knowledge Societies for Distinct Country Contexts is an essential reference source that documents methods, best practices, and case studies for the development of global knowledge societies at the national, regional, and local levels. Featuring empirical analysis on topics such as smart governance, financial literacy, and globalization, this book is ideally designed for business strategists, economists, international researchers, anthropologists, politicians, policymakers, governmental sectors, academics, and students seeking coverage on the development of knowledge society policies and strategies in various areas of the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986-08
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010536526

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Resources in education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Asli Demirguc-Kunt,Leora Klapper,Dorothe Singer,Saniya Ansar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464812682

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The Global Findex Database 2017 by Asli Demirguc-Kunt,Leora Klapper,Dorothe Singer,Saniya Ansar Pdf

In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1904 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : IND:30000090975966

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Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2000 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Pdf

Author : Thomas Menkhoff,Hans-dieter Evers,Yue Wah Chay
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814466264

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Governing And Managing Knowledge In Asia (2nd Edition) by Thomas Menkhoff,Hans-dieter Evers,Yue Wah Chay Pdf

The field of knowledge for development now occupies a top position on the agenda of all Asian governments as well as large development organizations. This book reflects this mega-trend of development towards KBEs (Knowledge Based Economies). For this 2nd edition all chapters have been thoroughly edited and data, tables and graphs have been updated to reflect the latest available statistics. Trends have been re-evaluated and adjusted to reflect recent developments in the fast-moving scene of knowledge governance and knowledge management.

Author : Michael Grahame Moore,William G. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135645410

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Handbook of Distance Education by Michael Grahame Moore,William G. Anderson Pdf

The second edition of this award-winning book continues the mission of its predecessor, to provide a comprehensive compendium of research in all aspects of distance education, arguably the most significant development in education over the past quarter century. While the book deals with education that uses technology, the focus is on teaching and learning and how its management can be facilitated through technology. This volume will be of interest to anyone engaged in distance education at either the K-12 or college level. It is also appropriate for corporate and government trainers and for administrators and policy makers in all these environments.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSD:31822019295781

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Federal Statistical Programs by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government Pdf

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000105244614

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Programs and Services by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Business Year
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781912498840

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The Business Year: Oman 2021/22 by Anonim Pdf

Oman, for some time, has been a nation on the move. An integral part of the GCC, it is also seeking to extend its influence further afield via the development of port infrastructure that is set to make it a firm fixture on the East-West transport route. But Oman isn't developing unguided, instead sticking faithfully to Vision 2040, a wide-ranging, ambitious blueprint that foresees the development of a diverse, sustainable economy unshackled by a reliance on oil and gas, which currently plagues much of the region. In this edition, which features interviews with top business leaders from across the economy, as well as news and analysis, we cover: diplomacy, finance, Vision 2040, 4th Industrial Revolution, digital innovation, sustainability, logistics, real estate, agribusiness, and tourism and retail.

Author : United States. Task Force on Parent Participation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : UOM:39015022620309

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Parents as Partners in Department Programs for Children and Youth by United States. Task Force on Parent Participation Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264747159

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Global Teaching InSights A Video Study of Teaching by OECD Pdf

What does teaching look like? What practices are most impactful? By directly observing teaching in the classroom, this study trialled new research methods to shed light on these key questions for raising student outcomes around the world.