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Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2008: Shared Global Challenges
Reducing poverty in any individual country is increasingly intertwined with making progress on shared global challenges, fostering global public goods (GPGs) such as climate protection and communicable disease control.…
Using Knowledge to Improve Development Effectiveness: An Evaluation of World Bank Economic and Sector Work and Technical Assistance, 2000-06
Economic and sector work (ESW) and nonlending technical assistance (TA) are two of the analytical and advisory services (AAA) through which the Bank provides knowledge support to its client countries. The objectives of…
Climate Change and the World Bank Group - Phase I: An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms (FTB)
This is a Fast Track Brief for Climate Change and the World Bank Group - Phase I: An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms. The first of a series on climate change, this evaluation assesses IBRD/IDA…
Indonesia - Country assistance strategy completion report : IEG review
This review examines the
implementation of the FY04-07 Indonesia country assistance
strategy (CAS) and 2006 CAS progress report, which extended
the CAS period until the end of FY08 to…
An Evaluation of Bank Support for Decentralization in Client Countries (FTB)
Developing countries have decentralized functions and responsibilities for service delivery to lower levels of government at an increasing pace in recent years. The main reasons for such reforms are often political,…
Costa Rica - Country Partnership Strategy : CAS Completion Report - IEG review
This review covers the FY04 country
partnership strategy (CPS) and the FY07 CPS progress report.
The FY04 CPS was a key step in establishing a framework for
a closer partnership…
Supporting Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Experience, 1990-2007 (FTB)
The Bank Group's lending and non-lending support for environmental sustainability has increased and improved over the past 15 years. But the institution needs to raise the priority it accords to this area of rising…
The Quality of Growth: Fiscal Policies for Better Results
Strong global growth and better economic policies in recent years have substantially reduced poverty in many developing countries. However, with the recent financial crisis originated in the United States, the world…
Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support
This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's support for environmental sustainabilityâin both the public and private sectorsâover the past 15 years. The purpose of this evaluation is threefold. First, it seeks to…
Azerbaijan - Farm Privatization Project, and Agricultural Development and Credit Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report reviews two projects that supported Azerbaijan's comprehensive land and agricultural reform program. Between them the projects pioneered Azerbaijan's reform program over its…