At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank

At the Frontlines of Development former World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both as managers of the World Bank's programs in global economic hotspots of the 1990s as well as throughout their careers in development economics...

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Main Authors: Gill, Indermit S., Pugatch, Todd
Format: Publication
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
GDP
GNP
WTO
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5877372/frontlines-development-reflections-world-bank
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spelling okr-10986-73572021-04-23T14:02:28Z At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank Gill, Indermit S. Pugatch, Todd Gill, Indermit S. Pugatch, Todd AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGRICULTURE ANALYTICAL WORK BORROWER COUNTRIES CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL ACCOUNT CAPITAL CONTROLS CAPITAL FLOWS CIVIL SOCIETY COMPARATOR COUNTRIES COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK CONDITIONALITY COUNTRY CONTEXT COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY OWNERSHIP COUNTRY SPECIFICITY DEBT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPING REGIONS DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT REPORT DONOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CRISES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC MEMORANDUM ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMISTS EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE RATE FINANCIAL CRISES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GDP GNP GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT GROWTH REGRESSIONS HEALTH CARE HUMAN FACE INCOME INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME LEVELS INFLATION INFLATION RATES LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CONDITIONS LOCAL SITUATION LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC ISSUES MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MACROECONOMICS MARKET LIBERALIZATION MIDDLE EAST MINES NATIONAL POLICY NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS OPEN ECONOMIES POLICY CHANGE POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY GOALS POLICY ISSUES POLICY PACKAGE POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR COUNTRIES POSITIVE EFFECTS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PRIVATE PROPERTY PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCTION PATTERNS PRODUCTIVITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW PUBLIC POLICY REFORM PROGRAM REFORM PROGRAMS REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES STANDARD APPROACHES STATE ENTERPRISES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURAL POLICIES STRUCTURAL REFORM TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRANSITION COUNTRIES VALUE ADDED WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION WTO At the Frontlines of Development former World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both as managers of the World Bank's programs in global economic hotspots of the 1990s as well as throughout their careers in development economics. These essays detail, among many stories of development in the 1990s, how China and India lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, while Russia collapsed; how Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mozambique remade their war-ravaged economies; and how Thailand, Turkey, and Argentina fell into financial crisis. These remarkable stories, told in first-person by the country directors who were there to witness them, provide candid assessments of development in the 1990s-what succeeded, what failed, and what lessons emerged. 2012-06-06T21:38:37Z 2012-06-06T21:38:37Z 2005 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5877372/frontlines-development-reflections-world-bank 0-8213-6041-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7357 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
AGRICULTURE
ANALYTICAL WORK
BORROWER COUNTRIES
CAPACITY BUILDING
CAPITAL ACCOUNT
CAPITAL CONTROLS
CAPITAL FLOWS
CIVIL SOCIETY
COMPARATOR COUNTRIES
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
CONDITIONALITY
COUNTRY CONTEXT
COUNTRY LEVEL
COUNTRY OWNERSHIP
COUNTRY SPECIFICITY
DEBT
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRY
DEVELOPING REGIONS
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
DONOR COMMUNITY
ECONOMIC CRISES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ECONOMIC MEMORANDUM
ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIC THEORY
ECONOMICS
ECONOMISTS
EMPLOYMENT
EXCHANGE RATE
FINANCIAL CRISES
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
GDP
GNP
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
GROWTH REGRESSIONS
HEALTH CARE
HUMAN FACE
INCOME
INCOME COUNTRIES
INCOME LEVELS
INFLATION
INFLATION RATES
LIVING STANDARDS
LOCAL CONDITIONS
LOCAL SITUATION
LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MACROECONOMIC ISSUES
MACROECONOMIC STABILITY
MACROECONOMICS
MARKET LIBERALIZATION
MIDDLE EAST
MINES
NATIONAL POLICY
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
OPEN ECONOMIES
POLICY CHANGE
POLICY DIALOGUE
POLICY GOALS
POLICY ISSUES
POLICY PACKAGE
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POOR COUNTRIES
POSITIVE EFFECTS
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
PRIVATE PROPERTY
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRODUCTION PATTERNS
PRODUCTIVITY
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC POLICY
REFORM PROGRAM
REFORM PROGRAMS
REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES
STANDARD APPROACHES
STATE ENTERPRISES
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
STRUCTURAL POLICIES
STRUCTURAL REFORM
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRANSITION COUNTRIES
VALUE ADDED
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
WTO
spellingShingle AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
AGRICULTURE
ANALYTICAL WORK
BORROWER COUNTRIES
CAPACITY BUILDING
CAPITAL ACCOUNT
CAPITAL CONTROLS
CAPITAL FLOWS
CIVIL SOCIETY
COMPARATOR COUNTRIES
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
CONDITIONALITY
COUNTRY CONTEXT
COUNTRY LEVEL
COUNTRY OWNERSHIP
COUNTRY SPECIFICITY
DEBT
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRY
DEVELOPING REGIONS
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
DONOR COMMUNITY
ECONOMIC CRISES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ECONOMIC MEMORANDUM
ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIC THEORY
ECONOMICS
ECONOMISTS
EMPLOYMENT
EXCHANGE RATE
FINANCIAL CRISES
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
GDP
GNP
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
GROWTH REGRESSIONS
HEALTH CARE
HUMAN FACE
INCOME
INCOME COUNTRIES
INCOME LEVELS
INFLATION
INFLATION RATES
LIVING STANDARDS
LOCAL CONDITIONS
LOCAL SITUATION
LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MACROECONOMIC ISSUES
MACROECONOMIC STABILITY
MACROECONOMICS
MARKET LIBERALIZATION
MIDDLE EAST
MINES
NATIONAL POLICY
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
OPEN ECONOMIES
POLICY CHANGE
POLICY DIALOGUE
POLICY GOALS
POLICY ISSUES
POLICY PACKAGE
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POOR COUNTRIES
POSITIVE EFFECTS
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
PRIVATE PROPERTY
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRODUCTION PATTERNS
PRODUCTIVITY
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC POLICY
REFORM PROGRAM
REFORM PROGRAMS
REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES
STANDARD APPROACHES
STATE ENTERPRISES
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
STRUCTURAL POLICIES
STRUCTURAL REFORM
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRANSITION COUNTRIES
VALUE ADDED
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
WTO
Gill, Indermit S.
Pugatch, Todd
At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank
description At the Frontlines of Development former World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both as managers of the World Bank's programs in global economic hotspots of the 1990s as well as throughout their careers in development economics. These essays detail, among many stories of development in the 1990s, how China and India lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, while Russia collapsed; how Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mozambique remade their war-ravaged economies; and how Thailand, Turkey, and Argentina fell into financial crisis. These remarkable stories, told in first-person by the country directors who were there to witness them, provide candid assessments of development in the 1990s-what succeeded, what failed, and what lessons emerged.
author2 Gill, Indermit S.
author_facet Gill, Indermit S.
Gill, Indermit S.
Pugatch, Todd
format Publications & Research :: Publication
author Gill, Indermit S.
Pugatch, Todd
author_sort Gill, Indermit S.
title At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank
title_short At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank
title_full At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank
title_fullStr At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank
title_full_unstemmed At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank
title_sort at the frontlines of development : reflections from the world bank
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5877372/frontlines-development-reflections-world-bank
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7357
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