Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Development: An Evaluation of the World Bank's Performance

Andres Liebenthal

No 13984 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Substantial improvement has been done by the Bank in its environmental performance since 1987. The Bank focused on the environment as a new area of activity, and it has sought to mitigate the negative environmental effects of its development interventions. The Bank's participation in the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and the 1992 World Development Report on the environment, demonstrated the Bank's engagement, which helped launch many environmental activities. These efforts have produced commendable results, and promoted awareness in developing country governments, of the linkages between the environment, and development. This evaluation report finds that the Bank has made progress on environmental issues, but notes that its commitments have not been accompanied by precise goals, and performance monitoring. It advances explanations of why things have turned out this way, and offers recommendations that focus on how to restore the environment to its proper role, in the Bank's holistic, long-term development agenda.

Keywords: Health Monitoring and Evaluation Rural Development-Rural Portfolio Improvement Health Economics and Finance Development Economics and Aid Effectiveness Drylands and Desertification Nutrition and Population Health; Nutrition and Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-01
ISBN: 0-8213-5053-6
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/aff ... 069da1dcf8a/download (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:13984

Access Statistics for this book

More books in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tal Ayalon ().