Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface, Prefacio, Préface -- Executive Summary, Résumen, Résumé -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Tunisia's Socioeconomic Development: Progress Achieved and Challenges Ahead -- Background -- Poverty and Social Conditions -- Debt Burden and External Assistance -- Meeting the Challenges of Globalization -- 2 World Bank Assistance Program -- World Bank Assistance Strategies -- Economic and Sector Work -- Lending -- 3 The Development Impact of World Bank Assistance -- Macroeconomic Stabilization, Growth, and Structural Reforms -- Human Development and Progress toward MDGs -- Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development -- Outcome, Sustainability, and Institutional Development -- 4 Contributors' Performance -- Tunisia's Own Central Role -- The World Bank's Performance -- Other Development Partners -- Exogenous Factors -- 5 Recommendations -- Annexes -- A: Statistical Annexes -- B: List of People Met on Mission in Tunisia (and World Bank and IMF Staff Interviewed) -- C: Guide to OED's Country Assistance Evaluation Methodology -- D: Management Action Record -- Attachments -- 1: Islamic Development Bank-Tunisia Country Assistance Evaluation -- 2: Report from the Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) -- Endnotes -- References -- Boxes -- 1.1 Mise à niveau Program (Enterprise Restructuring and Upgrading) -- 2.1 World Bank Strategies -- 3.1 Tunisia's Progress in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals -- Tables -- 1.1 Tunisia's Export Diversification, 1980-01 -- 1.2 Main Macroeconomic Indicators -- 1.3 Poverty and Inequality Trends in Tunisia, 1990-2000 -- 1.4 Selected Human Development Indicators in Tunisia and Comparator Countries -- 1.5 Tunisia: Net Receipts of External Financial Resources, 1990-01 -- 2.1 Distribution of World Bank Commitments by Sector (FY90-03) -- 2.2 IBRD Proposed and Actual Lending, FY97-02.

2.3 OED Evaluation Findings of Recently Evaluated Projects by Value -- 3.1 Tunisia and Comparators: Per Capita Income Indicators -- 3.2 Privatization by Sector, in Million Tunisian Dinar -- 3.3 Northwest Mountainous Areas Development Project: Selected Results from the 2000 Survey -- Figures -- 2.1 Bank Commitments, Disbursements, and Transfers -- 3.1 Business Climate Indices for Tunisia, MNA, and OECD -- 3.2 Education System Expansion at the Post-Basic Level -- 3.3 Net Primary Enrollment -- 3.4 Illiteracy -- 3.5 Infant Mortality.