Cover -- IEG PUBLICATIONS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Management Comments -- Chairperson's Comments: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Tracking Bank Performance -- 2 World Bank Performance in Perspective -- Project Performance Recovered in 2008 -- Long-Term Performance Shows a Clear Positive Trend -- Shifting Regional and Sectoral Composition Is Part of the Reason for Improved Performance -- When Did Performance Begin to Improve and Why? -- Performance Ratings of Country Programs: No Similar Upward Trend -- Bank AAA Is Important but Not Regularly Evaluated -- Level of Bank Adoption of Recent IEG Recommendations Has Been Declining -- Conclusions -- 3 Toward Measurable Results and Improved Performance Data -- Progress Implementing Bank-Wide M&E Reforms Is Evident but Remains Challenging -- Bank-Wide Results Measurement System: Making Progress, but toward Uncertain Ends -- Use of Impact Evaluation Is Growing, but Its Benefits Are Not Fully Achieved -- Real-Time Project Information: Continued Overoptimism -- Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Dormant Subject -- Conclusions -- Part II: Achieving Sustainable Development Lessons from the Bank's Experience -- 4 World Bank Support for Environmental Sustainability -- The Bank's Approach to the Environment Has Evolved in Response to Changing Needs -- World Bank Support for the Environment Has Recovered Since 2002 -- Mainstreaming Environmental Concerns across Sectors Is More Apparent than Real -- Analytical Work Is Helping to Catalyze Innovative Environmental Instruments -- Internal and External Constraints Shape and Inhibit the Bank's Effectiveness -- Major Lessons -- 5 Achieving Environmental Results from the Project to the Global Level.

Project-Level Results Show Areas of Success, but Monitoring Is Weak -- Country-Level Results Involve More than Successful Projects -- Regional Projects Offer Growing Potential to Achieve Regional Environmental Benefits -- Global Environmental Programs Add Value to Country-Level Efforts -- Economic Analysis of Environmental Projects Is Challenging -- Major Lessons -- Appendixes -- A: Supporting Data for 2008 Project Performance Analysis -- B: Criteria for IEG Evaluations -- C: Summary of Management Action Record 2009 -- D: The Bank's Environment and Natural Resource Management (ENRM) Portfolio -- E: Performance of the Bank's ENRM Portfolio -- F: Evaluating Environmental Performance at the Project Level -- G: Evaluating Environmental Performance at the Country Level-An Analysis of Recent CASCR Reviews -- H: Evaluating the Performance of Regional Environmental Projects -- I: Evaluating the Performance of Global Environmental Programs -- J: The Results Measurement System under IDA: A Review -- Endnotes -- References -- Back Cover.