Hi:
I am not up on the latest practices of the World Bank.
In my previous experience with them, they specifically excluded operational
expenses such as service contracts and consumables from their loans.
I’m not sure about training. In theory, the country needs to demonstrate to the
Bank that those expenses would be covered through local funding.
I had the [...]
Dear Colleagues:
We greatly appreciate this discussion and I have followed closely. The best discussion
in this group in a long time! Thank you for vision and insights- very much appreciated
by us.
One important extra variable to be discussed (as a potentially contributive factor) is
the role of international organizations in this process. To my knowledge, World [...]
Dear Jonathan and Wang
I believe you raise a very good point about the World Bank
In 1995 we had a project financed by the World Bank and one of the items was to acquire Medical Equipment.
The Ministry of Health invited Clinical Engineers among other people to set up the requirements for a project to be presented [...]
Binseng is making a great point in mentioning the World Bank. ECRI Institute has reviewed several World Bank projects in developing countries and I personally feel that the World Bank has the potential to be a significant driving force-either towards the problem or towards the solution. My experience is that the documents that [...]
