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Addressing the Challenges of Globalization: An Independent Evaluation of the World Bank's Approach to Global Programs.


HG3881

2004-058648

0-8213-6065-5

Addressing the challenges of globalization globalization

Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation
; an independent evaluation of the World Bank's approach to global programs.

Title main entry. Ed. by Uma Lele. (Operations evaluation studies)

The World Bank, [c]2004

265 p.

$20.00 (pa)

Built on 26 case studies of World Bank-supported global programs conducted by the Bank's Operations Evaluation Department The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) (previously known as the Operations Evaluation Department (OED)) is an independent unit within the World Bank that reports directly to the Bank's Board of Executive Directors. , this "Phase 2" report follows on the heels of an earlier report that focused on the strategic and programmatic pro·gram·mat·ic  
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or having a program.

2. Following an overall plan or schedule: a step-by-step, programmatic approach to problem solving.

3.
 management of the Bank's global portfolio. This report adds to the recommendations for such broad management and further considers lessons for the design and management of individual programs. The authors of the report assess how well the case study programs measure up to the selectivity selectivity /se·lec·tiv·i·ty/ (se-lek-tiv´i-te) in pharmacology, the degree to which a dose of a drug produces the desired effect in relation to adverse effects.

selectivity

1.
 and oversight
For Oversight in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Oversight.


Oversight may refer to:
  • Government regulation — The role of an official authority in regulating a separate authority.
 criteria and priorities established by the Bank's Development Committee and Development Grant Facility; make recommendations regarding program selectivity, design, implementation, governance, management, financing, and evaluation; and look at the progress in implementing recommendations from earlier reports of the Operations Evaluations Department.
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