Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Executive Summary; Advisory Panel Statement; Management Response; Chairman's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE); Glossary; 1 The Context; Figure 1.1 Relationships among Growth, Poverty, and Environment; Figure 1.2 World Bank Group Environment-Related Activities; 2 The Evaluation; Figure 2.1 Keys to Effectiveness; 3 The World Bank and the Environment; Box 3.1 Positive Impacts of Nonlending Support: Three Examples; Table 3.1 Portfolio by Region, Fiscal 1990-2007
Summary
This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's support for environmental sustainability--in both the public and private sectors--over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to be addressed, perhaps most importantly insufficient government commitment to environmental goals and weak institutional capacity to deal with them. But constraints within the Bank Group, including insufficient attention to longer-term sustainable development, must be reduced as well. The Bank Group needs improved systems in place--across the World Bank, IFC, and MIGA--to monitor environmental outco
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181)
