The World Bank and transferring development: policy movement through technical assistance

The World Bank and Public Procurement—An Independent Evaluation Volume II: Achieving Development Effectiveness through Procurement in Bank Financial Assistance

The Role and Effectiveness of Development Assistance Lessons from World Bank Experience

This paper was prepared under the direction of Nicholas Stern, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Development Economics (DEC); and Ian Goldin, Director of Development Policy. Halsey Rogers, a Senior Economist, was the lead author. Many other staff from across the Bank contributed. Sections and 5 draw heavily on the experience of the Operations Evaluation Department; the interpretation of...

The Role and Effectiveness of Development Assistance Lessons from World Bank Experience

Foreign aid is increasingly a catalyst for change, and it is helping to create conditions in which poor people are able to raise their incomes and to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. The past 50 years have seen remarkable successes, as well as failures, in development assistance. Better policies in developing countries, together with improved allocation of aid since the end of...

Health impact assessment in international development assistance: the World Bank experience.

The World Bank Group is an intergovernmental organization of more than 180 member countries that provides financial assistance to borrower governments in accordance with its goal of fighting poverty. It has embraced the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and has developed a strategy for achieving them, based on two main pillars: building the climate for investment, jobs and sustainable...

The World Bank ' s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment