Social Development General

• The Enabling Environment for Social Accountability in Mongolia
  
  
• Civil Society’s Role in the Governance Agenda in Ecuador: Assessing Opportunities and Constraints (576 KB PDF)
  
  
• Does Community Driven Development Work? Evidence from Senegal, June 2007 (384 KB PDF)
  
  
• Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda, June 2007 (550 KB PDF)
  
  
• Local Government Discretion and Accountability: A Local Governance Framework, June 2007 (2 MB PDF)
  
  
• Accountability in Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Role of Empowerment and Participation, May 2007 (290 KB PDF)
  
  
• Economic Results of CDD Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso, Indonesia and the Philippines, June 2007 (165 KB PDF)
  
  
• Community Foundations: A Tool for Preservation of Cultural Heritage, April 2007, (165 KB PDF)
  
  
• CDD in the Context of Conflict-Affected Countries: Challenges and Opportunities, February 2007 (1.1 MB PDF)
  
  
• Civil Society and Peacebuilding: Potential, Limitations and Critical Factors, February 2007(1.2 MB PDF)
  
  
• Local Government Taxation Reform in Tanzania: A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) June 2006 (246 KB PDF)
  
  
• Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Mining Sector Reform in Romania: A Policy Note, June 2006 (290 KB PDF)
  
  
• Community-Driven Development and Social Capital: Designing a Baseline Survey in the Philippines (Impact Analysis of KALAHI-CIDSS) June 2006 (207KB PDF)
  
  
• A History of the Social Development Network at the World Bank, 1973 - 2002, March 2004 (Gloria Davis) (263Kb PDF)
  
  
• Investing in Youth Empowerment: A Social Development Approach, February 2004 (137Kb PDF)
  
  
• Village Justice in Indonesia, May 2004 (7,876KB PDF)
  
  
• Measurement and Meaning. Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for the Analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Latin America, World Bank Technical Paper Number 518, December 2001
  
  
• New Paths to Social Development: Community and Global Networks in Action; A contribution of the World Bank to the United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly, Social Development Department, World Bank, June 2000, 2000(535KB PDF)
  
  
• The Faces of Inclusion Exhibition Produced by the Social Development Department and the World Bank Institute, Photo Exhibition and Catalog, 2000
  
  
• Voices of the Poor, Can Anyone Hear Us? published by Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 2000
  
  
• Mainstreaming Gender and Development in the World Bank: Progress and Recommendations, ESSD Series/Social Development Subseries, December 1999, 1999
  
  
• Security, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development: Challenges for the New Millennium, The World Bank and the Directorate General for International Cooperation, Belgian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and International Cooperation, World Bank, September 1999, 1999
  
  
• Themes for the Third Millennium: The Challenge for Rural Sociology in an Urbanizing World, Ismail Serageldin (keynote address delivered at the 9th World Congress of Rural Sociology on Rural Potentials for the Global Future held in Bucharest, Romania), World Bank, April 1999, 1999
  
  
• Social Development Update: Making Development More Inclusive and Effective, Social Development Paper No. 27, May 28, 1998 (185Kb PDF)
  
  
• Integrating Social Concerns into Private Sector Decisionmaking: A Review of Corporate Practices in the Mining, Oil, and Gas Sectors, World Bank Discussion Paper Number 384, January 1998, 1998
  
  
• Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Social Capital in Tanzania, ESD Studies and Monographs Series Number 20, October 1997, 1997
  
  
• Social Dimensions of Economic Development, Social Development Paper No. 17, February 1997
  
  
• Beyond Fences: Seeking Social Sustainability in Conservation, (2 Volumes) Prepared jointly by IUCN and the World Bank, 1997
  
  
• The Self and the Other: Sustainability and Self-Empowerment, ESD Proceedings Series Number 13, September 1996, 1996
  
  
• Social Development and Results on the Ground: Task Group Report, prepared by the Social Development Task Group, Social Development Paper No. 22, May 01, 1996 (184Kb PDF)
  
  
• Confronting Crisis: a Summary of Household Responses to Poverty and Vulnerability in Four Poor Urban Communities (also in French and Spanish), ESD Studies and Monographs Series Number 7, March 1996, 1996
  
  
• Dynamics of Poverty: Why Some People Escape from Poverty and Others Don't (An African case study), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Number 1499, August 1995, 1995
  
  
• Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Proceedings of a Conference held at the World Bank, Washington, D.C September 27-28, 1993, ESD Proceedings Series Number 4, June 1995
  
  
• Child Labor: A Review (Background Paper for World Development Report 1995), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Number 1454, May 1995, May 1995
  
  
• Poverty and Social Transfers in Poland, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Number 1440, March 1995, 1995
  
  
• Sociology, Anthropology, & Development: An Annotated Bibliography of World Bank Publications 1975-93, November 1994, 1994
  
  
• Common Property Resources: A Missing Dimension of Development Strategies, World Bank Discussion Paper Number 169, 1992
  
  
• Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development (also in Spanish and Chinese), August 1991, 1991