Engaging With Fragile States: An Ieg Review of World Bank Support to Low-income Countries Under Stress (Operations Evaluation Studies) - Softcover

Carvalho, Soniya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821368478 ISBN 13: 9780821368473

Publisher: World Bank, 2006

Synopsis

During fiscal 2003-05, World Bank lending and administrative budgets to fragile states amounted to $4.1 billion and $161 million, respectively. IEG's report assesses the effectiveness of this Bank support.

The report finds that the Bank and the donor community have improved their operational readiness to engage with fragile states, and made substantial progress on donor coordination at the international policy level. Significant challenges remain, however. Donor agendas have been overly ambitious and need to be made more selective, the effectiveness of donor programs needs to be improved after the immediate post-conflict phase in war-ravaged countries when structural change is needed, and donors need to develop transparent aid allocation criteria that ensure that fragile states will be neither under- nor over-aided. The report makes recommendations to overcome these challenges and distills lessons for the Bank and other donors.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0821368478
• ISBN 13: 9780821368473
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192