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This section presents trends and explores several factors associated with World Bank project performance, 2 as identified in previous RAP s and the broader literature, such as a project’s size, lending group, fragile and conflict-affected situation (FCS) status, quality at entry, and M&E quality.
New research examines the influence of the World Bank’s ease of doing business indicator, which affects policy through bureaucratic, international and domestic political channels.
The World Bank’s outcome ratings steadily improved from FY10 onward and increased by an impressive 9 percentage points in FY20. The largest annual increase over the past five years.
- Explaining The Trends
- Responding to Covid-19 and Other Shocks
- IFC Projects
- Explaining The IFC Trends
The World Bank operates within country programs. Transforming its technical and financial support into results depends on both the country’s capacity and economic environment and the quality of the World Bank’s support. This RAP explores some of these external and internal factors further for World Bank projects and Bank Group country programs. It ...
The study of shocks and their impact on project and program results can also contribute some insights for the World Bank’s ongoing pandemic response. Teams are preparing pandemic response projects (many of which are new rather than additional financing) under tight time pressures and amid complex political, economic, and public health contexts and ...
Investments
IFC investment projects’ development outcome ratings have declined over the past 10 years, but there are early signs that this decline has stopped or may be starting to reverse. IFC development outcome ratings declined from a peak of 75 percent of projects rated mostly successful or better by IEG in calendar year (CY)08 to 40 percent in CY17 and 43 percent in CY18 (figure 2.9). These ratings are based on a stratified random representative sample, which in CY18 covered 99 projects, or 39 perce...
Advisory Services
Development effectiveness ratings for IFC advisory services projects show signs of improvement. Development effectiveness ratings peaked in FY12–14, when 65 percent of advisory projects were rated mostly successful or better (figure 2.10). This declined to 38 percent in FY15–17 before increasing to 41 percent for projects evaluated in FY16–18 and 50 percent for FY17–19 (based on very preliminary FY19 data and therefore subject to change).13When calculated by the advisory project’s funding amo...
IEG researched many possible explanations for the long period of decline in IFC investments’ development outcome ratings. The joint IFC-IEG underlying evaluation and ratings methodologies did not change during this period, so methods changes cannot explain IFC’s ratings decline. The ratings trends for IFC investments differ substantially from those...
Aug 3, 2020 · There are, the World Bank says, two reasons for an economy to be moved between classifications. One is in-country change, such as increased or decreased economic growth, marked shifts in domestic inflation, or exchange rates.
May 30, 2024 · High-income countries, where one in six of the world’s population live, contributed 46% of global GDP in 2021. Upper-middle-income countries, home to one in three people, contributed 35% of GDP.
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