Lessons from World Bank Group Responses to Past Financial Crises

Independent Evaluation Group

No 28065 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: A worldwide financial crisis of enormous magnitude continues to unfold rapidly. Unlike other crises in recent decades, the current episode is rooted in industrial countries' financial systems and is affecting low-income and middle-income countries (MICs) alike. Defaults on securitized sub-prime mortgages as a real estate market bubble burst led to failures or near-failures of several large financial institutions and a collapse of inter-bank and commercial paper markets. A tightening of credit, combined with declining consumer confidence, has brought on worldwide recession with growing unemployment, and many fear that the downturn will be severe and protracted. At the same time, the rapidly multiplying signs of contraction are prompting strong responses, including fiscal stimulus packages and reductions in benchmark lending rates, on the part of several of the affected developed countries. The Bank Group is well placed to help mitigate the impact of the current crisis with financing and advisory services, and its clients are already requesting increased support. A rapid, high-quality response that combines financial and advisory support can do much to ease the inevitable ramifications of the crisis. Lessons from evaluations of previous Bank Group responses to past crises can help inform the response to the current crisis in order to increase its effectiveness.

Keywords: Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Bankruptcy; and; Resolution; of; Financial; Distress; Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Financial; Crisis; Management; &; Restructuring; Governance-Governance; and; the; Financial; Sector; Governance-International; Governmental; Organizations; Macroeconomics; and; Economic; Growth-Development; Economics; &; Aid; Effectiveness; Macroeconomics; and; Economic; Growth-Economic; Conditions; and; Volatility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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