World Bank Country-Level Engagement on Governance and Anticorruotion : An Evaluation of the 2007 Strategy and Implementation Plan
Well-governed countries is better able to formulate growth-enhancing policies, deliver essential services to the poor, and regulate financial and product markets. The appeal of governance reform and the fight against corruption can resonate widely...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank Group
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/01/18027471/world-bank-country-level-engagement-governance-anticorruotion-evaluation-2007-strategy-implementation-plan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15796 |
| Summary: | Well-governed countries is better able
to formulate growth-enhancing policies, deliver essential
services to the poor, and regulate financial and product
markets. The appeal of governance reform and the fight
against corruption can resonate widely across diverse
countries and social groups, as demonstrated by recent
events in the Middle East and North Africa. Building on more
than two decades of experience, the World Bank's 2007
governance and anticorruption (GAC) strategy reaffirmed its
continuing commitment to the crucial and challenging agenda
of helping countries develop accountable and effective
states. Focusing on the country operational aspects of the
overall GAC agenda, the Independent Evaluation Group (lEG)
assessed the relevance and effectiveness of the strategy and
its first phase of implementation efforts over fiscal years
2008-10. A key feature of the evaluation is its benchmarking
of the content and quality of the Bank's country-level
engagement on GAC issues, before and after the 2007
strategy. The findings of this evaluation are, by design,
intended to inform a planned second phase of the GAC
implementation, a learning process that signals one of the
Bank's strengths. They can be viewed in the context of
an ongoing change management and internal reforms agenda,
which includes the strengthening of the Integrity Vice
Presidency, a new World Bank Institute strategy, an
institution-wide transparency initiative, and efforts to
modernize investment lending. |
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