World Bank Operations Evaluation Department

Grasso, Patrick G.; Wasty, S S H; Weaving, Rachel

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“…If IEG conducts a PPAR, it includes the associated rating in the 3 Early PCRs were joint products of Operations and IEG staff and did not include ratings; IEG has since imputed ratings from the written reports (IEG 2015B, 2). 4 This reduction was driven by an expanding World Bank project portfolio but also increasing demands on IEG resources to generate other evaluation products at the country and sector levels (Grasso et al 2003). More than 70% of IEG's budget was devoted to PPARs in 1976 (Grasso et al 2003, 169); the figure was less than 10% of IEG's USD 34 million budget in 2011 when the time devoted to a PPAR averaged six staff weeks (IEG 2011, 38).…”

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“…[ Figure 2 about here] According to IEG, the selection of projects for the in-depth PPARs is non-random (Grasso et al 2003). PPAR sample selection reportedly depends on several factors including particularly good or bad outcomes, sectors subject to IEG review, and geography.…”

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“…Evaluation of project performance is to a degree a subjective enterprise and there is evidence of systematic bias in some World Bank assessments at project appraisal (Pohl et al 1992) as well as changes over time in the evaluation system (Grasso et al 2003). In addition, since the literature suggests a significant link between geopolitics and World Bank lending decisions (Dreher et al 2009;Kilby 2013A), a similar influence on ratings appears plausible.…”

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“…For a more detailed history of OED, seeGrasso et al (2003). For simplicity, in the text below we use IEG to refer to the evaluation department even before 2005.…”

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What Influences World Bank Project Evaluations?

Kilby

Michaelowa

2019

Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development

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In July of 2011, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) made the World Bank Project Performance Ratings database available to the public. With global coverage and spanning the range of sectors important for economic development, these data are a valuable resource for research about development effectiveness, what works and what does not. This paper first provides a brief overview of the IEG's rating process and the classifications used by the World Bank that may help scholars interested in evaluation, but unfamiliar with World Bank terminology, to use and interpret the database. Second, this paper examines whether geopolitical or institutional factors influence project performance assessments. We focus on how IEG selects projects for performance assessments and what factors influence project ratings in those assessments. We find some evidence that bureaucratic factors influence selection but only one geopolitical variable-UNSC non-permanent membership-influences IEG ratings.

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Section: Project Evaluation At the World Bankmentioning

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“…For a more detailed history of OED, seeGrasso et al (2003). For simplicity, in the text below we use IEG to refer to the evaluation department even before 2005.…”

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Michaelowa

2019

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“…ICR‐like instruments have been in use since 1973; the Bank introduced a set of general guidelines for these reports in 1977 (Grasso, Wasty, and Weaving ; Weiner ; Willoughby ). In 1994, the instruments were renamed and standardized in response to NGO criticisms of Bank operations (Köpp ).…”

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Targeting, Accountability and Capture in Development Projects

Winters

2013

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If development projects are to be effective, a minimum requirement is that the funding reaches its intended destination. Yet the history of international development is replete with examples of this not happening. I argue that there will be fewer problems with corruption or other diversions of funding—which I jointly label capture—in more precisely targeted projects. More well‐defined targeting results in superior accountability relationships because there is greater clarity of responsibility, clearer information about outcomes, and improved identifiability of stakeholders. I use an original cross‐country, cross‐project data set on the incidence of capture in World Bank‐funded investment projects to test the theory. The data show a negative relationship between targeting and capture, and I demonstrate that this relationship is robust to a variety of specifications. In addition, I find that there is a higher baseline likelihood of project capture in countries perceived as more corrupt according to commonly used survey‐based measures from Transparency International and the Worldwide Governance Indicators, cross‐validating those measures and my own.

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Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict

Spoor¹

2005

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World Bank Operations Evaluation Department

Cited by 29 publications

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What Influences World Bank Project Evaluations?

What Influences World Bank Project Evaluations?

Targeting, Accountability and Capture in Development Projects

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