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High-Efficiency Lighting in Mexico
Roughly 2.6 million high-efficiency light bulbs were sold below-cost to residential consumers of electricity in two Mexican cities as part of a pilot demonstration project for high-efficiency lighting. The ILUMEX…
The Logic of Renewal: Evaluation at the World Bank (1992-2002)
Keynote address of DGO Robert Picciotto at event celebrating 30 years of Operations Evaluation in the World Bank. September 23rd, 2002, Preston Auditorium, World Bank, Washington, DC, The World Bank
Zambia: Country Assistance Evaluation (REACH)
The Bank was instrumental in supporting liberalization in the early 1990s that helped restore private sector growth. But during 1996-01, the relevance of IDA strategies to support external debt management was weak, and…
Russia: Bank Assistance for the Energy Sector (Youri Bobylev and Jacek Cukrowski)
The results of the Bank's operations in different sub-sectors have been mixed. In the coal sub-sector, the Bank's projects have been effective in assisting the government to improve the management system, the social…
Russia: Bank Assistance for the Energy Sector (Richard Berney)
The Bank has rightly followed differing approaches to working with each subsector, based on its evaluation of the central problems of that sub-sector, and on its assessment of the Government's willingness to accept Bank…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Public Financial Accountability (Vinod Sahgal and Deepa Chakrapani)
The Bank-wide efforts in strengthening PFA institutions point to two important lessons: i) Building institutional capacity in transition economies for public sector accountability systems is a long-term initiative that…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Financial Sector Development
The Bank's appreciation of the importance of financial sector development to the success of the overall reform process, and its diagnosis of the measures needed for that development to occur, have changed little over…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Private Sector Development
In this paper the authors critically assess the Bank's sector assistance strategy in private sector development and financial sector development, which can be broadly considered in four distinct phases. Phase 1, the…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Private Sector and Financial Sector Developments
This paper assesses the World Bank's success in promoting private sector development and financial sector reform in Russia from 1991 to 2000. The Bank's most significant contribution during the period was to prepare…
Russia: Thoughts on the Privatization Debates A Decade Later
In summary, the Russians (and the EBRD) experimented with the lease buyouts as a more home-grown option but the Russian reformers, with the full support of their Bank and other western advisors, stopped the experiments…