The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience

The World Bank Group in 2013 made the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030 a central institutional focus and purpose. This evaluation examines how, and how well, the Bank Group has focused its support on poverty reduction over the past decade, and what lessons to draw from this moving forward. The...

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Main Author:	Independent Evaluation Group
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	COUNTRY DIAGNOSTICS COUNTRY STRATEGIES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION SAFETY NETS UNEMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24846931/poverty-focus-country-programs-lessons-world-bank-experience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22486

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spelling	okr-10986-224862021-04-23T14:04:09Z The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience Independent Evaluation Group COUNTRY DIAGNOSTICS COUNTRY STRATEGIES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION SAFETY NETS UNEMPLOYMENT The World Bank Group in 2013 made the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030 a central institutional focus and purpose. This evaluation examines how, and how well, the Bank Group has focused its support on poverty reduction over the past decade, and what lessons to draw from this moving forward. The lessons aim to strengthen the Bank’s country diagnostics, improve the design of country strategies, and build greater learning opportunities from program experience. Using country case studies, surveys, focus group meetings, systematic reviews of Bank products, and other instruments, the evaluation examines the consistency of poverty focus in each of four links in a causal chain: data, diagnostics, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation through lending and nonlending instruments. It reviews the adequacy of the information base and usefulness of the analytical underpinnings that support country strategy formulation and implementation. It also evaluates the consistency of the poverty focus throughout the evaluation chain and the strength and weakness of feedback loops. 2015-08-18T20:02:30Z 2015-08-18T20:02:30Z 2015-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24846931/poverty-focus-country-programs-lessons-world-bank-experience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22486 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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description	The World Bank Group in 2013 made the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030 a central institutional focus and purpose. This evaluation examines how, and how well, the Bank Group has focused its support on poverty reduction over the past decade, and what lessons to draw from this moving forward. The lessons aim to strengthen the Bank’s country diagnostics, improve the design of country strategies, and build greater learning opportunities from program experience. Using country case studies, surveys, focus group meetings, systematic reviews of Bank products, and other instruments, the evaluation examines the consistency of poverty focus in each of four links in a causal chain: data, diagnostics, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation through lending and nonlending instruments. It reviews the adequacy of the information base and usefulness of the analytical underpinnings that support country strategy formulation and implementation. It also evaluates the consistency of the poverty focus throughout the evaluation chain and the strength and weakness of feedback loops.
format	Working Paper
author	Independent Evaluation Group
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title	The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience
title_short	The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience
title_full	The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience
title_fullStr	The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience
title_full_unstemmed	The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience
title_sort	poverty focus of country programs : lessons from world bank experience
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24846931/poverty-focus-country-programs-lessons-world-bank-experience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22486
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The Poverty Focus of Country Programs : Lessons from World Bank Experience

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