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Nepal - Multimodal Transit Project
The Nepal Multimodal Transit Project had the following ratings: outcome was moderately unsatisfactory; risk to development outcome was significant; Bank performance was moderately satisfactory; and borrower performance…
Development Actions and the Rising Incidence of Disasters
This Evaluation Brief brings attention to World
Bank investments at risk. It alerts task managers
to increases in the number and severity of flood
and windstorm disasters resulting from environmental
degradation,…
Disasters, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and Future Directions
This paper explores the links among natural disasters, climate change, and economic development. It attempts to outline a framework for thinking about these links. The paper summarizes the limited knowledge of the…
Governance and Anti-Corruption: Ways to Enhance the World Bank's Impact
This note summarizes suggestions for enhancing
the Bank's work on helping countries deal
with poor governance and corruption and in
ensuring that funds disbursed by the World Bank
are protected from abuse. Its purpose…
The Nexus Between Infrastructure and Environment -- From the Evaluation Cooperation Group of the International Financial Institutions
This review across regions provides implications
for actions by the IFIs and the countries, by the
evaluators, and by the ECG: (1) The IFIs can work with countries to ensure that a more environmentally strategic…
The World Bank and IFC Doing Business Indicators: An Independent Evaluation Group Review (Approach Paper)
The Doing Business project gathers data on measures of regulation (for instance, the number of procedures to register a business) and on outcomes (the time and cost to register a business). IEG's evaluation will seek to…
Argentina - Second Provincial Development Project
This is a Project Performance Assessment Report for the Argentina Second Provincial Development Project (PDP-II). PDP-II not only survived one of the countryâs worst social, political and economic crises in 2001-2002…
Argentina - National Highways Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project
The principal ratings for the Argentina National Highways Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project are as follows: the outcome was moderately satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, the Bank…
China - Environmental Technical Assistance Project
The ETAP sought to strengthen the capacities and programs of two institutions of national importance for environmental management in China, namely: (i) the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA); and (ii) the…
India - First District Primary Education, Second District Primary Education, Uttar Pradesh Basic Education, Second Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Projects
Outcomes ratings for the projects are based on their efficacy, relevance and efficiency. The two projects in each pair had the same ratings. Outcomes ratings for both UPBEP and DPEP projects are moderately satisfactory…