Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Part I: Tracking Bank Performance -- Part II: Shared Global Challenges -- The Challenge of Global Public Goods -- Can the Bank's Country-Based Model Foster Global Public Goods? -- Resource Allocation -- Financing Instruments -- Global Programs -- The Bank's Advocacy on Global Public Goods: What Has Worked and What Has Not -- Improving the Bank's Support for Global Public Goods: Lessons from Experience -- Management Comments: Summary -- Tracking Bank Performance -- Shared Global Challenges-Lessons from the Bank's Experience -- Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) -- 2008 Arde -- Draft Management Response -- Overall Conclusions -- Next Steps -- Evaluation Snapshot in Selected Languages -- English -- French          Français -- Portuguese          Português -- Spanish          Español -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- Endnotes -- PART 1 Tracking Bank Performance -- CHAPTER 2 Development Outcomes: Indicators of Performance -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- Measuring Project Performance: Trends from IEG Monitoring -- Project Outcomes in Fiscal 2007 Data -- How It Adds Up: Outcomes of Bank Country Programs -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 3 Underpinning Impact-M&E and Results Management -- Evaluation Highlights -- Monitoring and Evaluation Systems at the Project Level -- Country-Level M&E: Early Evidence from Results-Based CASs -- Managing Global Programs and Partnerships: An Emerging Agenda -- Improving Our Understanding of Causality: The Use of Impact Evaluations -- Monitoring Institutional Effectiveness -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 4 Lessons and Opportunities -- Practical Lessons for the Near Term -- Directions for the Overall Bank Agenda.

PART 2 Shared Global Challenges Lessons from the Bank's Experience -- CHAPTER 5 The Challenge of Global Public Goods -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 6 Using the Bank's Country-Based Model to Foster Global Public Goods: Does It Work? -- Evaluation Highlights -- How It Works in Theory-the Bank's Strategic Setting for Fostering Global Public Goods -- Experience with Bank Country Assistance Strategies -- The Experience with Bank Network (Sector) and Regional Strategies -- Country Programs in Practice-from Strategy to Action -- Allocating the Right Level of Corporate Resources -- Using Different Financing Instruments -- Bank Concessional Finance-IDA -- Other Concessional Finance-Grants -- Nonconcessional and Market-Based Finance -- Deploying Global Programs at the Country Level -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 7 The Bank's Advocacy on Global Public Goods: What Has Worked and What Has Not? -- Evaluation Highlights -- The Dimensions of Advocacy -- Advocacy at Its Best: The Bank's Experience with Trade -- The Complex Challenge of Environmental Commons and Climate Change -- Creating a Unified Response: Learning from Avian Flu -- Effective Advocacy Benefits from Voice and Representation -- New Dimensions of Advocacy: Innovation through Financial Capabilities -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 8 Improving the Bank's Support for Global Public Goods: Lessons from Experience -- Introduction -- Appendix A: Project Performance Results -- Performance Trends -- Outcome -- Sustainability and Institutional Development Impact -- Regional Performance -- Sectoral Performance -- Lending Instrument Performance -- New Lending Instruments -- Bank-Managed Special Programs -- Endnotes -- Appendix B: Monitoring and Evaluation Overview -- Appendix C: IEG's Self-Evaluation: Improving Effectiveness -- Overview -- Improving IEG's Effectiveness -- IEG's Results Framework.

IEG's Outputs: Increasing Relevance and the Focus on Learning -- Deepening Strategic Partnerships -- Evaluation capacity development -- Harmonizing development evaluation -- Quality and Relevance of IEG Outputs: Results of the 2007 Client Survey -- Readership and awareness -- The quality of IEG evaluations -- Communicating Knowledge from IEG Evaluations -- IEG Intermediate Outcomes: Evaluation Recommendations Incorporated into Bank Operations and Policy -- IEG Intermediate Outcomes: Use of Evaluation Findings by Bank Staff at the Operational Level -- Endnotes -- Appendix D: Features of Global Public Goods -- From the Demand Side -- From the Supply Side -- Appendix E: Management Comments -- Introduction -- Tracking Bank Performance -- Project Outcomes -- Actions in response to warning signals -- Decline in fiscal 2007 project outcome ratings and increase in disconnect-some observations -- Country Program Outcomes -- Monitoring and Evaluation -- Shared Global Challenges -- Country-Based Support for GPGs -- Bank involvement in GPGs at the country level -- Financial support for MICs' contributions to GPGs -- Use of the country program model -- Country and regional strategies -- Global programs -- Strengthening country program support for GPGs -- Advocacy on GPGs -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.