At the Front Line : Reflections on the Bank’s Work with China over Forty Years, 1980-2020
This volume contains written contributions from some of the key actors involved on both the Chinese and the World Bank sides in the past four decades of partnership. It is clear that the World Bank from the very beginning provided honest and eviden...
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okr-10986-360152022-05-18T12:52:06Z At the Front Line : Reflections on the Bank’s Work with China over Forty Years, 1980-2020 World Bank Raiser, Martin Koch-Weser, Caio Lim, Edwin Burki, Javed Bottelier, Pieter Hope, Nicholas Huang, Yukon Dollar, David Rohland, Klaus Hofman, Bert Shaolin, Yang Wencai, Zhang Shixin, Chen Yingming, Yang Yu, Ye Zhongjing, Wang Junhong, Chang Kwakwa, Victoria COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP ECONOMIC REFORM WORLD BANK GROUP STRATEGY ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY POVERTY ALLEVIATION WORLD BANK GROUP PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS PARIS AGREEMENT WORLD BANK GROUP KNOWLEDGE WORLD BANK GROUP LENDING This volume contains written contributions from some of the key actors involved on both the Chinese and the World Bank sides in the past four decades of partnership. It is clear that the World Bank from the very beginning provided honest and evidence-based advice to China, but China was always in the driver’s seat in structuring the relationship and in determining what to do (and what not to do). Periodically, the World Bank engaged in national policy debates, during the Bashan Boat Conference, at Dalian, then with the China 2020 and China 2030 reports, and the subsequent series of flagships produced jointly with the Development Research Center under the State Council. For much of the time, however, World Bank’s impact was at the local level through demonstration projects and reform pilots that China studied, adapted, and later scaled. Finally, an increasingly important theme of the partnership in the last decade concerns World Bank’s cooperation with China globally, through International Development Association (IDA), South-South learning, and ongoing discussions over good practices in international development finance. As China’s global economic and financial heft continues to grow, this theme is likely to become increasingly important and require further adaptation on both sides. The first part contains the contributions of World Bank Country Directors in chronological order by decade: Caio Koch-Weser, Edwin Lim for the 1980s; Javed Burki, Pieter Bottelier, and Nick Hope for the 1990s; Yukon Huang and David Dollar for the 2000s; and Klaus Rohland and Bert Hofman for the 2010s. The second part contains the contributions of the Chinese authors, which are organized by themes. The third essay speaks to the shift in World Bank’s program to support China’s climate action following the Paris Agreement, with lessons that are highly relevant for the future evolution of the partnership. The fourth contribution is from Yang Yingming, former Executive Director for China at the World Bank, and now back with the Ministry of Finance, and reflects on the interaction between World Bank’s knowledge and financial cooperation with China, drawing lessons for other countries and for the future of the partnership. 2021-07-23T17:17:11Z 2021-07-23T17:17:11Z 2021-07-23 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/643531627030598596/At-the-Front-Line-Reflections-on-the-Bank-s-Work-with-China-over-Forty-Years-1980-2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36015 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Country Partnership Framework East Asia and Pacific China |
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This volume contains written
contributions from some of the key actors involved on both
the Chinese and the World Bank sides in the past four
decades of partnership. It is clear that the World Bank from
the very beginning provided honest and evidence-based advice
to China, but China was always in the driver’s seat in
structuring the relationship and in determining what to do
(and what not to do). Periodically, the World Bank engaged
in national policy debates, during the Bashan Boat
Conference, at Dalian, then with the China 2020 and China
2030 reports, and the subsequent series of flagships
produced jointly with the Development Research Center under
the State Council. For much of the time, however, World
Bank’s impact was at the local level through demonstration
projects and reform pilots that China studied, adapted, and
later scaled. Finally, an increasingly important theme of
the partnership in the last decade concerns World Bank’s
cooperation with China globally, through International
Development Association (IDA), South-South learning, and
ongoing discussions over good practices in international
development finance. As China’s global economic and
financial heft continues to grow, this theme is likely to
become increasingly important and require further adaptation
on both sides. The first part contains the contributions of
World Bank Country Directors in chronological order by
decade: Caio Koch-Weser, Edwin Lim for the 1980s; Javed
Burki, Pieter Bottelier, and Nick Hope for the 1990s; Yukon
Huang and David Dollar for the 2000s; and Klaus Rohland and
Bert Hofman for the 2010s. The second part contains the
contributions of the Chinese authors, which are organized by
themes. The third essay speaks to the shift in World Bank’s
program to support China’s climate action following the
Paris Agreement, with lessons that are highly relevant for
the future evolution of the partnership. The fourth
contribution is from Yang Yingming, former Executive
Director for China at the World Bank, and now back with the
Ministry of Finance, and reflects on the interaction between
World Bank’s knowledge and financial cooperation with China,
drawing lessons for other countries and for the future of
the partnership. |
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