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on land, citizenship and services. This grant, our largest single investment, works at the national level on urban poverty alleviation programs in Uganda and Ghana, and will soon expand to one Asian country (either Vietnam or Cambodia) and one additional country in Africa or the Middle East.' This gra

from DFID in early 2010, as well as funding from SIDA, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. • A $15 million grant to the World Bank's Cities Alliance focusing on land, citizenship and services. This grant, our largest single investment, works at the national level on urban poverty

ies of job seekers rather than job creators. Higher education does not even appear to be correiated with higher employment in a number of places. In Uganda, for example, 19% of Ugandan graduates are lippitcaseLeg, compared to 7% of secondary school leavers. And in Nigeria, graduates are 5% less likely

national donors has increasingly concentrated on basiC education. teievirg this is the best way to alleviate poverty. In the late-1980s. 17% of ttse World Bank's global educational spending used to be focused on higher education, but this had declined to 7% by the tate-1990s. This might suggest that the sol

cal institutions. The return to a more interdisciplinary approach to development was marked as well by the tenure of James Wolfenson as President of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005.4 Wolfenson early on gave a speech on the “cancer of corruption” and signaled to the institution that, henceforth, political issues

m one another. For example, the authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes of Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia, Paul Kagame in Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni in Uganda have been aid darlings over the past decade because of their track records in promoting economic, health and social goals. At the same time, democrac