01. Annual Reports & Independent Evaluations
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Brazil Country Opinion Survey Report (July 2013 - June 2014)
( 2014-03-14)The Country Opinion Survey for FY2013 in Brazil assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Brazil perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Brazil on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Brazil; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Brazil; 3) overall impressions of the WBG s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Brazil; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG s future role in Brazil. -
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World Bank Engagement at the State Level : The Cases of Brazil, India, Nigeria, and the Russian Federation
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010)This report summarizes the past 10 years (1998-2008) of World Bank engagement at the state level in four selected large federal countries: Brazil, India, Nigeria, and the Russian Federation. The report identifies lessons and good practice examples that warrant further examination and wider dissemination. First, the study confirms the desirability of continued selective lending in a few focus states. The Bank's engagement with progressive, reformist states has added value and has been highly appreciated, but to enhance the poverty impact of state-level interventions, greater weight should be given to the needs of the poorest states by balancing states' propensity to reform and the concentration of poverty within them. Experience shows that it has been possible to achieve results in some of the poorer, low-capacity states through persistent work with committed state counterparts and partnerships with other donors. Second, continued focus on public finance management appears sound, irrespective of whether engagement is confined to this area or serves as an entry point for broader engagement. Third, there is considerable scope for greater impact from knowledge transfer and expanded knowledge services. -
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The Quality of Growth: Fiscal Policies for Better Results
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2008)The world faces unprecedented opportunities to reduce global poverty and improve human welfare. Strong global growth and better economic policies in recent years have substantially reduced poverty in many developing countries. However, with the recent financial turmoil in the United States and rising prices for food, oil, and other commodities, the world economy faces heightened risks and volatility. Policymakers around the world face the challenge of maintaining momentum in growth, as well as of improving the quality of growth. This concern over quality is reflected in the highly uneven reduction in poverty, rising inequality in numerous countries, and widening environmental degradation during the past decade, a period of unprecedented high economic growth in developing countries. Unless these issues are confronted, gains from growth are likely to be undermined and the pace of growth, itself, will not be sustained. Growth is clearly linked to reductions in poverty. But the strength of this relationship depends on the quality or nature of growth. Various studies show that some growth patterns systematically reduce poverty and inequality, but others do not. And some growth patterns lead to underinvestment in human capital, overexploitation of natural resources, and degradation of the environment, patterns inimical to the sustainability of growth. -
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The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and Driven Development : Engaging the Poor through CBD and CDD Initiatives--A Brazil Country Study with a Focus on the Northeast
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007-01-09)Since the 1980s and early 1990s, the World Bank has been supporting projects that involve communities own development. This has been largely manifested in the design and implementation of community-based development (CBD) and community-driven development (CDD) initiatives, with the latter gaining increasing momentum in recent years. The purpose of this study was to assess the development effectiveness of the Brazil portfolio of CBD and CDD interventions as an input to the Bank-wide independent evaluation group (IEG) evaluation of CBD and CDD initiatives. This portfolio includes thirty projects (which are either CBD or CDD or include a CBD and CDD component) approved between FY1989 and FY2003. The evaluation framework for this study is based on operations evaluation department's (OED's) objective-based approach. It addresses issues related to the outcomes of CBD and CDD projects - including relevance, efficacy, and efficiency - their institutional development impact and sustainability. For the assessment of virtually all CBD and CDD projects in the Brazil portfolio, this study draws on a desk review of available project documents and self-evaluation reports. This study is structured around IEG's evaluation framework. Chapter one gives scope and methodology of the study. Chapter two sets the context, by providing background information on issues relevant to CBD and CDD interventions in Brazil. Chapter three presents a description of the portfolio being assessed. Chapter four assesses the outcomes of CBD and CDD projects, including their relevance to the country situation and the Bank's assistance strategy, their efficacy and to the extent possible, their efficiency. Chapter five addresses issues of institutional development, by exploring capacity enhancement at three levels - borrower, communities, and project municipal councils as well as the role played by non-government organizations (NGOs) in CBD and CDD projects. Chapter six examines the extent to which CBD and CDD projects are likely to be sustainable in the long run. Chapter seven concludes with lessons learned and possible implications for future support to CBD and CDD initiatives in Brazil. The annexes present in more details the evidence on which the arguments advanced in this study are based.