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Assisting Russia's Transition: An Unprecendented Challenge
The Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) for Russia, covering the period from 1992 to 2001, showed disappointing but improving results for the World Bank's activities in the Russian Federation. Although OED rated the…
The Next Ascent: An Evaluation of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program
By many measures the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) is a highly successful NGO-run rural development program. It reaches some 900,000 people in about 1,100 villages in the Northern Areas and Chitral District of…
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…