Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration

This evaluation assesses the Bank Group’s effectiveness and comparative advantage in fostering regional integration during FY2003–17 and draws lessons that can be used to inform future regional integration operations. Client countries of the World...

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Main Author: Independent Evaluation Group
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/180771555372859192/Two-to-Tango-An-Evaluation-of-World-Bank-Group-Support-to-Fostering-Regional-Integration
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spelling okr-10986-320792021-09-16T20:06:38Z Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration Independent Evaluation Group REGIONAL INTEGRATION DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE WORLD BANK OPERATIONS TRADE AGREEMENTS This evaluation assesses the Bank Group’s effectiveness and comparative advantage in fostering regional integration during FY2003–17 and draws lessons that can be used to inform future regional integration operations. Client countries of the World Bank Group have turned to regional integration as one of the pathways toward faster economic development and peace, and to help overcome development challenges. Main findings of the report include: (i) Overall, the Bank Group’s efforts to foster regional integration have led to mostly positive development outcomes in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region and in infrastructure sectors. (ii) Though the IDA Regional Window program has also contributed to regional integration (mainly in the Africa Region), the development outcomes of its interventions are not significantly different from similar projects co-financed outside the program. 2019-07-12T18:52:50Z 2019-07-12T18:52:50Z 2019-04-15 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/180771555372859192/Two-to-Tango-An-Evaluation-of-World-Bank-Group-Support-to-Fostering-Regional-Integration http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32079 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic REGIONAL INTEGRATION
DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
WORLD BANK OPERATIONS
TRADE AGREEMENTS
spellingShingle REGIONAL INTEGRATION
DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
WORLD BANK OPERATIONS
TRADE AGREEMENTS
Independent Evaluation Group
Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration
description This evaluation assesses the Bank Group’s effectiveness and comparative advantage in fostering regional integration during FY2003–17 and draws lessons that can be used to inform future regional integration operations. Client countries of the World Bank Group have turned to regional integration as one of the pathways toward faster economic development and peace, and to help overcome development challenges. Main findings of the report include: (i) Overall, the Bank Group’s efforts to foster regional integration have led to mostly positive development outcomes in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region and in infrastructure sectors. (ii) Though the IDA Regional Window program has also contributed to regional integration (mainly in the Africa Region), the development outcomes of its interventions are not significantly different from similar projects co-financed outside the program.
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author Independent Evaluation Group
author_facet Independent Evaluation Group
author_sort Independent Evaluation Group
title Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration
title_short Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration
title_full Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration
title_fullStr Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration
title_full_unstemmed Two to Tango : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Fostering Regional Integration
title_sort two to tango : an evaluation of world bank group support to fostering regional integration
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/180771555372859192/Two-to-Tango-An-Evaluation-of-World-Bank-Group-Support-to-Fostering-Regional-Integration
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