Knowledge-based country programs : an evaluation of World Bank group experience

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466044303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, District of Columbia : , : The World Bank, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4648-0226-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (133 p.)
• Collana: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
• Disciplina: 338.9109172/4
• Soggetti: Economic assistance - Developing countries; Knowledge management - Developing countries; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Overview; Management Response; Management Action Record; Chairperson's Summary; 1 Introduction; Relative Intensity of Knowledge Services in World Bank Country Programs; Objectives, Scope, and Methodology of the Evaluation; 2 Relevance of the World Bank in Knowledge-Based Partnerships; Fit of World Bank Knowledge-Based Country Programs with Country Challenges; Use of World Bank Group Knowledge Services and Stakeholder Engagement; Strategic Positioning of the World Bank on Development Knowledge; 3 Technical Quality of Knowledge ServicesLeveraging the Bank's Global Expertise; Customization of Solutions to Country Context; Development of Actionable Recommendations; 4 Results and Their Sustainability; Results of World Bank Group Knowledge Services; Factors Associated with the Achievement of Results of World Bank Knowledge Services; Sustainability and Monitoring of Results; Synergy between World Bank and IFC Knowledge Services in Achieving Results; 5 Conclusions; How Can the World Bank Enhance Its Value Proposition in Knowledge-Based Partnerships?; How Can the World Bank Delineate the Scope and Instruments of Knowledge-Based Country Programs?How Can the Bank Group Leverage Its Engagement in Knowledge-Based Country Programs?; Bibliography; ; Boxes; Box 1.1 Definitions, Use of Terms, and Selection of Knowledge Activities; Box 1.2 Previous IEG Evaluations of Knowledge Services; Box 2.1 Public Knowledge Goods; Box 2.2 Perception of Knowledge Services from Client Surveys; Box 4.1 Knowledge Service Results in Poverty Reduction and Social Protection: Stylized Findings; Box 4.2 Helping China's Guangdong Province Tackle Rising Inequality; Box 4.3 Sustainable Knowledge Activity Outcomes through Capacity Development and Institution Strengthening: Examples from South Africa and ChinaFigures; Figure 1.1 Lending and Knowledge Activities in World Bank Country Programs (FY98-04 versus FY05-11); Figure 2.1 Use of World Bank Knowledge Services and IFC Advisory Services (in % of Reviewed Activities); Figure 2.2 Participation of Government Counterparts in Knowledge Activities (in % of Reviewed Projects); Figure 3.1 Use of Local Expertise in World Bank Knowledge Activities (in % of Activities Reviewed by IEG); Figure 3.2 Discussion of Capacity Requirements and Administrative Feasibility of Recommendations in World Bank Knowledge Services (in % of Activities Reviewed by IEG)Figure 4.1 Achievement of Expected Outcomes of World Bank Knowledge Services by Thematic Area and Focus Countries (in % of Activities Reviewed by IEG); Figure 4.2 Achievement of Expected Outcomes of World Bank Knowledge Activities (in % of Reviewed Projects); Figure 4.3 Client Participation in Knowledge Activity Stages in Relation to Degree of Achievement of Knowledge Activity Expected Outcomes (in % of Reviewed Knowledge Activities in Each Category of Outcome Achievement)

Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century : Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean / / edited by Francesca Bregoli, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, Guri Schwarz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299804603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
• ISBN: 9783319894058; 3319894056
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2018.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 219 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.903
• Soggetti: Europe - History - 1492-; Civilization - History; Judaism and culture; Religion - History; History of Early Modern Europe; History of Modern Europe; Cultural History; Jewish Cultural Studies; History of Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction;Francesca Bregoli, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti and Guri Schwarz -- 2. Rabbi Abraham Rovigo's Home as a Center for Traveling Scholars; Matt Goldish -- 3. La Puerta de la Franquía: Livorno and Pan-Jewish Networks of Beneficence in the Eighteenth Century; Matthias Lehmann -- 4. Elia Benamozegh's Printing Presses: Livornese Crossroads and the New Margins of Italian Jewish History; Clémence Boulouque -- 5. Claiming Livorno: Citizenship, Commerce, and Culture in the Italian Jewish Diaspora; Alyssa Reiman -- 6. Living in Exile: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Study of Religion in Italy (1890s-1930s); Cristiana Facchini -- 7. Under Observation: Italian Jewry and European Jewish Philanthropic Organizations in 1938-1939; Tullia Catalan -- 8. Jewish DPs in Post-War Italy: The Role of Italian Jewry in a ; Multilateral Encounter (1945-48); Arturo Marzano -- 9. Young Italian Jews in Israel and Back. Voices from a Generation (1945-1953); Marcella Simoni -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The volume investigates the interconnections between the Italian Jewish worlds and wider European and Mediterranean circles, situating the Italian Jewish experience within a transregional and transnational context that is mindful of the complex set of networks, relations, and loyalties that characterized Jewish diasporic life from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Preceded by a methodological introduction by the editors, the chapters present specific case studies that address rabbinic connections and ties of communal solidarity in the early modern period, and examine the circulation of Hebrew books and the complex overlap of national and transnational identities after emancipation. For the twentieth century, this volume additionally explores the Italian side of the Wissenschaft des Judentums; the role of international Jewish agencies in the years of Fascist racial persecution; the interactions between Italian Jewry, JDPs and Zionist envoys in the aftermath of Word War II; andthe impact of Zionism in transforming modern Jewish identities.