Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2008 : Shared Global Challenges
This year's annual review of development effectiveness focuses on assessing the World Bank's development effectiveness, with special attention to global public goods. It notes some encouraging developments. Project performance has improve...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/9949917/annual-review-development-effectiveness-2008-shared-global-challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6553 |
| Summary: | This year's annual review of
development effectiveness focuses on assessing the World
Bank's development effectiveness, with special
attention to global public goods. It notes some encouraging
developments. Project performance has improved over the
medium term; country programs have worked relatively well in
several large nations that house a majority of the
world's poor; and the Bank has increased attention to
collective international action on global public goods and
advocated effectively on some of those important challenges.
But work is required to remedy weaknesses. Notably there is
a need to go beyond the Bank's country- based model
when tackling issues where the perceived local and national
benefits of action do not match global benefits from
collective action. Attention should be paid to improving
weak performance of country programs in smaller states and
those with extensive poverty, and redressing shortcomings in
applying monitoring and evaluation in projects and country
programs. Over the next decade and beyond, the success of
the international community and the World Bank Group in
rising to the shared global challenges of our time will be
crucial to reducing poverty and, indeed, to solving the
looming challenges the world collectively faces. |
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