This report has been prepared in the context of a major global effort in the past eight years to better measure results in development assistance. The agenda for this effort was articulated and refined in a series of international conferences, beginning with the international conference on...

The authors use data from more than 6,000 World Bank projects evaluated between 1983 and 2009 to investigate macro and micro correlates of project outcomes. They find that country-level "macro" measures of the quality of policies and institutions are very strongly correlated with project...

Cost-benefit analysis used to be one of the World Bank's signature issues. It helped establish its reputation as the knowledge Bank and served to demonstrate its commitment to measuring results and ensuring accountability to taxpayers. It was the Bank's answer to the results agenda long before...

Outcomes on World Bank education projects are better when the quality of project appraisal is good.Research reported in this paper tests the hypothesis that Bank education projects for which the project appraisal documents are judged quot;goodquot; have a higher probability of leading to...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD / PREFACIO / AVANT-PROPOS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY / RÉSUMEN / RÉSUMÉ -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 OVERVIEW OF BANK GROUP ASSISTANCE BY SECTOR -- 3 PROJECT AND SECTOR OUTCOMES -- 4 OUTSTANDING POLICY AND STRATEGIC ISSUES -- 5 CONCLUSIONS AND...

Research reported in this paper tests the hypothesis that Bank education projects for which the project appraisal documents are judged "good" have a higher probability of leading to successful outcomes than projects for which the appraisals are judged "poor." The research draws on project...

The authors use data from more than 6,000 World Bank projects evaluated between 1983 and 2009 to investigate macro and micro correlates of project outcomes. They find that country-level "macro" measures of the quality of policies and institutions are very strongly correlated with project...

Based on previously untapped archival material, this chapter discusses the establishment of the operations evaluation function at the World Bank between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, and the conflicting visions that shaped it. The birth of the operations evaluation function at the Bank was...

This chapter examines the general functioning of the World Bank Inspection Panel during its first two decades of operation (1994–2014) to assess whether it really is a vehicle through which individuals can hold the World Bank accountable. In making this assessment, the chapter considers (a)...