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Ecuador Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) focuses on the Bank ' s 1990s experience in Ecuador, relative to the 1993 country assistance strategy (CAS), regretfully, a strategy which underestimated the risks associated…
Nepal: Country Assistance Evaluation
The study reviews Nepal's development strategy in the 1990s, providing a Country Assistance Evaluation on the Bank's contribution to development. While a - fragile - macroeconomic stability was maintained, the limited…
Indonesia: Country Assistance Note
Indonesia, with significant Bank support, has achieved major progress, despite the setbacks of the 1997 financial crisis, which exposed the country's structural flaws. However, while the government's development…
Meeting India's Energy Needs (1978-1998): A Country Sector Review
This report evaluates the performance of Bank lending and nonlending activities in India's energy sector. In particular it assesses the impact that changes of the early 1990s in the Bank's strategy toward the sector…
Côte d'Ivoire: Country Assistance Review
This Country Assistance Review examines World Bank assistance to Côte d'Ivoire over the past three decades in the following contexts: traditional investment lending in a fast-growing economy until 1980, adjustment…
Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in Africa
A high-level seminar held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, in November 1998, brought together teams of senior officials from 12 African countries and 21 international development assistance agencies. Their task was to look…
The Drive to Partnership: Aid Coordination and the World Bank
The overarching conclusion of this review is that the development community has been well-served by the Bank's support of aid coordination, but much remains to be done to achieve the long-standing goal of country…
Evaluation Capacity Development: A Diagnostic Guide and Action Framework
This Guide is intended to assist those governments and development agencies which have decided to develop a national or sectoral evaluation system. The Guide provides a detailed checklist of issues to be considered in…
Higher Impact Adjustment Lending (HIAL) in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study reviews the HIAL initiative introduced in the Africa Region in 1995. HIAL is aimed at enhancing adjustment lending (AL) through improved country selection and better program design. This study evaluates the…
Bangladesh: Progress Through Partnership
During its long involvement with the development effort in Bangladesh, the International Development Association (IDA) has carried out more than 90 projects and a massive volume of economic and sector work, as well as…