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The outcomes of both projects were rated moderately satisfactory because project objectives were only partially achieved. The projects clearly had a significant impact on primary…

Haiti's real per capita income fell during the last 15 years, and roughly two-thirds of the population lives in poverty, with economic and social indicators comparable to those of the poorest countries in the world.…

This report finds that the outcome of the Bank's program has been highly satisfactory. Bank assistance supported substantial institutional development, and time has shown that the achievements reached have a high…

Bank assistance to El Salvador contributed to create the conditions to grow faster, to reduce poverty and gender differences, and to develop the private sector. It covered six main areas: stabilization and adjustment;…

The outcomes of all three projects was adversely affected by resistance to reform, civil unrest resulting from political instability, a continuing exchange rate crisis, and oil price…

Bank assistance has become more pro-poor in recent years, but the Bank should make greater efforts to monitor systematically the impacts of Bank-assisted projects and programs on poverty and gender and to mainstream…

The explosion of the Internet has brought about an increasingly rapid convergence of information and communication technolo-gies, launching an information revolution that could reshape society and commerce in the global…

In its first review of the World Bank's environmental policies and activities since the Bank's Environment Department was created in 1987, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) finds that Bank performance has…

Précis is based on the 2001 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness: Making Choices, Report No. 23342. In response to a complex and rapidly changing development agenda, the World Bank has adapted and expanded its…

This Working Paper also serves as volume 2 of the India Country Assistance Evaluation, India: The Challenges of Development. Included in this volume, in addition to the introductory text, taken from Chapter 4 of the…