Mali, Mauritania & Senegal Regional Hydropower Development Project
The outcome of the Mali, Mauritania & Senegal Regional Hydropower Development Project is rated satisfactory. As a result of achieving its physical and its core development objectives, albeit with considerable delays…
Madagascar: Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) reviews the Bank's assistance strategy for Madagascar for the period 1995-2005 (FY94-06). It looks at the relevance, efficacy, efficiency, and impact of Bank's assistance to…
Rural Electrification and Poverty Reduction: An Impact Evaluation (Approach Paper)
This evaluation will be a meta-impact analysis, drawing on evidence from a number of sources. This evidence will combine new analysis of new data for one country (Lao PDR) and re-analysis of existing data for 10 others…
Cambodia Country Assistance Evaluation
This is an approach paper for the evaluation of the World Bank's Assistance to Cambodia. The evaluation will review Bank's assistance from July 1, 1998 to December 31,2006 and will include reviews of project and program…
Peru - Country Partnership Strategy - CAS completion report : IEG review
The country assistance strategy for
Peru was prepared when there was still uncertainty about the
new government~^!!^s policy direction. However, one year
into the CAS period, the Bank…
Seven Findings for the Nexus of Infrastructure, Agriculture, and the Environment
Development thinking has come in waves, with emphasis shifting from infrastructure to agriculture, to the macroeconomy and to human development. Interest in infrastructure and agriculture now has been renewed at the…
India - States' Road Infrastructure Development Technical Assistance Project
This is the Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) prepared by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) for the India States' Road Infrastructure Development Technical Assistance Project (SCL-41140, PPFB-P2230). The…
Azerbaijan - Country assistance strategy completion report (CASCR) review for the period FY2003-05 : IEG review
The overriding goal of the FY03-05
Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) was to help Azerbaijan
translate its anticipated temporary oil boom into sustained
poverty reduction. The strategy…
The World Bank's Contribution to Agriculture Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An IEG Desk Review (Approach Paper)
The purpose of this review is twofold. First, it will serve as a pilot for the IEG study on Bank assistance in agriculture scheduled for FY09 and will develop a methodology and a conceptual framework for that study.…
Malawi - First, Second and Third Fiscal Restructuring and Deregulation and Second and Third Fiscal Restructuring and Deregulation Technical Assistance Programs
This is a Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) on three International Development Association (IDA) adjustment credits and two complementary technical assistance credits to Malawi, and was prepared in support of…