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New Joint World Bank-IMF-MIGA Evaluation: Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support
29 07 2008 Bank Group support for the environment has grown during the past 15 years and performance has improved. At the same time, environmental challenges have increased, and problems in the critical areas of pollution, congestion, loss of species, and climate change have worsened. In view of the public goods nature of these concerns, the Bank Group has a special role to play with respect to environmental issues-and has indeed been a leader in the analysis and advocacy that helps countries focus on these challenges. It is also the largest multilateral source of environment-related financing. But far greater progress is needed. These concerns must be given increased operational priority, as should how the Bank, IFC, and MIGA work together, in recognition that long-term economic growth, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability are interlinked.

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New Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) on Colombia: Structural Fiscal Adjustment Project; First Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Adjustment Loan Second Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Structural Adjustment Loan; Third Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Structural Adjustment Loan
29 07 2008 This PPAR of four loans extended to Colombia to help the government improve its fiscal performance and its institutional efficiency: the Structural Fiscal Adjustment Program (SFAL), and a series of three loans called the Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Adjustment Loans, I to III (FIALS). Although the SFAL was an independent operation, it served as a steppingstone for the design of the more ambitious program that framed the FIAL series. For this reason, this report evaluates the outcomes of three processes: the SFAL, the FIALs and the fiscal operations as a whole.

New IEG Videos: Doing Business Evaluation Launch Discussion and an Interview with Victoria Elliott, Doing Business Evaluation Leader
20 06 2008 The Doing Business evaluation launch discussion, and an interview with Victoria Elliott, the Doing Business evaluation Lead, are now available for viewing online. Participants in the launch discussion include: Victoria Elliott, Evaluation Team Leader; François Bourguignon, Director, Paris School of Economics, and Former Chief Economist, World Bank; Dennis de Tray, Vice President for Special Initiatives, Center for Global Development; Penelope Brook, Director, Indicators and Analysis, Financial and Private Sector Development, World Bank Group.

To view these videos, visit the Doing Business evaluation website.

Taking the Measure of the World Bank-IFC Doing Business Indicators: An Independent Evaluation
20 06 2008 The annual Doing Business report is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It measures the burden of selected business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries on 10 dimensions. This independent evaluation assesses the scope and relevance of the DB indicators, and the methods used to construct the country rankings and their use by Bank Group staff, policy makers, and other stakeholders.
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