Information Infrastructure : The World Bank Group's Experience
This joint OED(Operations Evaluation Department)/OEG (Operations Evaluation Group) study follows up OED's 1993 review of the Bank's experience in telecommunications. It assesses how World Bank Group assistance from 1993 onward has influen...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank and the International Finance Corporation
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/06/1490217/information-infrastructure-world-bank-groups-experience-joint-operations-evaluation-department-operations-evaluation-group-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13966 |
| Summary: | This joint OED(Operations Evaluation
Department)/OEG (Operations Evaluation Group) study follows
up OED's 1993 review of the Bank's experience in
telecommunications. It assesses how World Bank Group
assistance from 1993 onward has influenced the development
of information infrastructure in developing countries. It
finds that recommendations of the 1993 review have generally
been heeded with a) the adoption of a new private-sector-led
agenda; b) the incorporation of the new agenda in most
recent Bank lending and non-lending interventions; and c)
the increasing share of IFC in total Bank Group funding
commitments for telecommunications. The study points out
that, at a time when the information revolution presents
developing countries with far-reaching opportunities and
risks, the Bank Group's ability to play a global policy
leadership role has been hampered by its benign neglect of
the sector at both the strategic and country management
levels, as well as a fragmented internal organization. As a
result, the number of countries where it has had a real
impact is limited. The study recommends that the Bank Group
a) restate its strategy in the broader information
infrastructure, with a particular focus on optimizing the
use of its instruments and expert skills; and b) gaps in the
existing monitoring and evaluation systems be filled, to
provide the necessary framework to assess the future
effectiveness of the revised strategy. |
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