Improving the Lives of the Poor through Investment in Cities : An Update on the Performance of the World Bank's Urban Portfolio.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword, Prólogo, Avant-Propos -- Executive Summary, Résumen, Résumé Analytique -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- About the OED Rating System -- 1.Context and Methods -- Developing-Country Cities and the Poor -- Evaluation Method -- 2. Evolution of the Bank's Urban Portfolio -- The First Decade: 1972-82-Initial Focus on Poverty -- The Second Decade: 1983-92-Rapid Expansion after the Debt Crisis -- The Third Decade: 1993-2000-Managing Cities and Market Reforms -- Into the Fourth Decade: 2001 and Beyond-Putting Cities in a Global Context -- 3. Better Projects in Cities, Better Lives for the Poor -- Bank Support Makes a Difference -- Rebound of Project Performance Ratings -- Key Determinants of Project Performance -- Project Factors of Success-Things that Managers Can Work On -- Country Factors-Things that Managers Need to Take into Account -- Factors Not Found to Be Correlated with Project Performance -- Where to Focus Action? -- 4. Improving Lives in Cities by Implementing the Strategy -- Livability-Decent Quality of Life and Opportunity for All, Especially the Poor -- Good Governance-Inclusion and Accountability, Especially at the Local Level -- Bankability-Financial Soundness and Creditworthiness -- Competitiveness-Efficient Markets in Cities -- 5. Recommendations -- Annexes -- 1: Urban Output and Outcome Indicators from the Urban Strategy Paper -- 2: Selected Performance Data-Urban Portfolio, 1993-2000 -- 3: Urban Portfolio: Completed Projects, 1993-2000 -- 4: Urban Portfolio: Ongoing Projects -- 5: Management Response -- 6: Chairman's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Box -- 4.1 City Development Strategy -- Figures -- 2.1 Timeline of Urban Portfolio Performance.

2.2 Subsector Shares of Urban Projects and the Percent Satisfactory by Exit Year, 1993-2000 -- 3.1 Ratings Have Rebounded Strongly since 1995 -- 3.2 Completed Urban Projects: Bank and Borrower Performance -- Tables -- 1.1 More People-Including the Poor-Living in Developing-Country Cities -- 2.1 The Bank's Urban Portfolio at a Glance -- 2.2 Urban Policy and Economic Development, UPP-91 -- 2.3 OED's Review of 20 Years of Lending for Urban Development, 1972-92 -- 2.4 Cities in Transition: World Bank Urban and Local Government Strategy, USP -- 3.1 Results of Least-Squares Regression of Factors of Urban Project Performance.

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