Annual review of development effectiveness . 2009 Achieving sustainable development [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : International Bank for Reconstruction and Development\World Bank, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.57
• Soggetto topico: Economic development projects - Finance - Evaluation; Loans, Foreign - Developing countries
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: At head of title: IEG World Bank, IFC, MIGA.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Executive Summary; Management Comments; Chairperson's Comments: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE); 1 Introduction; PART I: TRACKING BANK PERFORMANCE; Box 2.1 IEG Outcome Ratings; Box 2.2 What Does a Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory Project Look Like?; Figure 2.1 World Bank Project Ratings Have Improved since 1993; Figure 2.2 Percent Satisfactory Outcome Ratings by Region and Sector, 2006-08 versus 2003-05; Figure 2.3 Improvement in World Bank Project Ratings since 1993, Alternative Measures ; Table 2.1 Average Annual Changes in Ratings between 1993 and 2008Table 2.2 Changes in Project Composition Account for a Small Portion of Overall Improvement; Box 2.3 What Accounts for Substantially Worse Outcomes in Health and Public Sector Projects?; Figure 2.4 Percentage of Operations Judged Satisfactory, by Year of Entry and Exit; Figure 2.5 Agriculture: Percentage of Operations Judged Satisfactory, by Year of Entry and Exit; Box 2.4 What Do Moderately Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory Country Programs Look Like?; Figure 2.6 Mixed Performance in Country Program Ratings over Time ; Box 3.1 Recent Evaluations Highlight Problems in M&EFigure 3.1 M&E Was Rated High or Substantial in Only about a Third of Projects Exiting in 2007 and 2008; Box 3.2 The Paradox of Satisfactory Performance and Unsatisfactory M&E; Table 3.1 The Bank's Progress in Implementing IDA15 Recommendations; Box 3.3 Reasons for Impact Evaluation; Table 3.2 Summary of Data Used for Evaluating Project Outcomes, by Region; Table 3.3 Summary of Evaluation Types; Figure 3.2 Timeline of Key Project Ratings; Figure 3.3 Bad Information Tends to Be Revealed Only at the End of Implementation ; Table 3.4 Low Ratings at Project Midpoint Foreshadow Worse OutcomesTable 3.5 Nearly Half of Projects Are Ultimately Rated Lower than Projected at Project Midpoint; Box 3.4 True Pilot Projects: Why Are They Not Used More Often?; Figure 3.4 Percentage of Projects with Economic Rate of Return Estimates, by Year of Approval; PART II: ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-LESSONS FROM THE BANK'S EXPERIENCE; Figure 4.1 Absolute Changes in CO2 Emissions and Income, 1992-2004; Figure 4.2 The World Bank Group and the Environment: A Summary Timeline of Activities ; Box 4.1 IFC and MIGA Have Also Strengthened Attention to the Environment in Recent YearsFigure 4.3 Bank Commitments to ENRM Operations, Fiscal Years 1990-2008; Figure 4.4 Bank-Implemented ENRM Operations by Source of Financing, 1995-2001 and 2002-08; Figure 4.5 Bank-Implemented ENRM Operations by Environmental Theme, 1995-2001 and 2002-08; Box 4.2 Lessons from the Midterm Review of the GEF's Resource Allocation Framework; Figure 4.6 Bank-Implemented Global and Regional ENRM Operations by Region, 1995-2001 and 2002-08; Box 4.3 Mainstreaming Environmental Themes into Bank-Supported Projects ; Box 4.4 Meaningful Mainstreaming: Enhancing the Quality of Life through an Integrated Health-Environment Project in Eritrea
• Sommario/riassunto: The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2009 presents evidence on the World Bank's efforts in two areas. Part I tracks the outcomes of Bank projects and country programs and the evolution of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Part II examines the Bank's support for environmentally sustainable development compatible with economic growth and poverty reduction.The Bank's project performance rebounded in 2008, allaying concerns about the weakened performance in 2007. As previous ARDEs have shown, project performance has been improving gradually for 15 years according to the traditional measur
• Titolo autorizzato: Annual review of development effectiveness
• ISBN: 1-282-46129-X; 9786612461293; 0-8213-8136-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456876203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Annual review of development effectiveness ; ; 2009.