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Contenido: Pt. 1: A partnership for development and peace / James D. Wolfensohn -- Pt. 2: Making the case for aid / Nicholas Stern -- Pt. 3: The role and effectiveness of development assistance: lessons from World Bank experience / Ian Goldin, Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- 1. The meaning of development and the role of policy, institutions, and markets -- 2. Sources of growth and poverty reduction -- Cross-country evidence on the effectiveness of assistance -- 4. Effectiveness of Bank action at the sectoral, program, and project level -- 5. Effectiveness of global interventions --Conclusions: learning lessons to move forward -- Annex: Measuring the World Bank's development effectiveness and managing for results

This publication includes readings related to the U.N. International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002:(a) " A Partnership for Development and Peace, " a keynote speech given by World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn, two weeks before the Monterrey event;(b) " Making the Case for Aid, " a note by World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, discussing the consensus that emerged from Monterrey;(c) " The Role and Effectiveness of Development Assistance, " a report presented at Monterrey, detailing lessons from the World Bank ' s experience, written by Ian Goldin, Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern;(d) " The Monterrey Consensus, " the official United Nations document outlining the major agreements reached at the conference, with an introduction by Mats Karlsson, World Bank vice president for external and U.N. affairs.