Publication: 2000 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness : From Strategy to Results
Date
2001-03
ISSN
Published
2001-03
Author(s)
Johnston, Timothy
Battaile, William
Abstract
This Annual Review of Development
Effectiveness (ARDE) builds on previous reviews, i.e., the
1998 review, released in a hostile environment of financial
crisis, concluded that improvements in project performance
cannot be enough, that improvements at a higher plane of
program, and country performance should also be present;
and, the 1999 review, inscribed within the Comprehensive
Development Framework dilemmas, and challenges, identified
practices for dealing with those challenges, namely to be
based on country commitments to poverty reduction, and
sustainable growth. The ARDE 2000 finds that progress was
solid on a broad front, but that further progress is likely.
Portfolio performance is likely to exceed the Strategic
Compact target of seventy five percent satisfactory
outcomes; and, sustainability, and institutional development
ratings reflect improvements. Though progress is
commendable, this review examines four tensions the Bank
faces: learning to reconcile client, and corporate
priorities; adapting global prescriptions to local
conditions; balancing country performance and poverty
incidence in allocating its resources; and, achieving
efficiency/selectivity, seeking to implement a holistic
vision of development. Bank strategies should acknowledge
client needs, judicious adaptation to institutional, social,
and political fronts should be pursued, and, an approach to
poor-performing countries should be addressed.
Citation
“Johnston, Timothy; Battaile, William. 2001. 2000 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness : From Strategy to Results. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/04d59da7-fdc6-5cd5-8706-44cb9342bea3 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”