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When Do Environmentally Focused Assistance Projects Achieve their Objectives? Evidence from World Bank Post-Project Evaluations

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  • Mark T. Buntaine

    (Mark T. Buntaine is assistant professor of government at the College of William and Mary.)

  • Bradley C. Parks

    (Bradley C. Parks is co-executive director of AidData and research faculty at the College of William and Mary's Institute for Theory and Practice of International Relations.)

Abstract

Scholars and practitioners have paid considerable attention to the factors that promote successful outcomes in environmentally focused assistance projects. Previous studies have identified various potential predictors of successful outcomes, including the political commitment, institutional capacity, and governance quality of the recipient country; the severity of environmental pressures in the recipient country; donor-recipient contracting dynamics; project characteristics; and civic participation in the recipient country environment sector. We test the influence of these variables on project success using a dataset of outcome ratings for all environmentally focused World Bank projects approved since 1994. We find that strong public sector institutions in the recipient country and proactive staff supervision foster project success and that projects seeking to achieve global environmental objectives are less likely to succeed. Future research will be most fruitful if it focuses on how operational and management characteristics of individual projects lead to successful outcomes. © 2013 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Mark T. Buntaine & Bradley C. Parks, 2013. "When Do Environmentally Focused Assistance Projects Achieve their Objectives? Evidence from World Bank Post-Project Evaluations," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 13(2), pages 65-88, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:65-88
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    Cited by:

    1. Jeongwon Bourdais Park, 2016. "Toward the Green Comfort Zone: Synergy in Environmental Official Development Assistance," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 16(4), pages 1-11, November.
    2. Christopher Kilby & Katharina Michaelowa, 2019. "What Influences World Bank Project Evaluations?," Springer Books, in: Nabamita Dutta & Claudia R. Williamson (ed.), Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development, chapter 0, pages 109-150, Springer.
    3. Matthew J Kotchen & Neeraj Kumar Negi, 2019. "Cofinancing in Environment and Development: Evidence from the Global Environment Facility," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 33(1), pages 41-62.
    4. Steffen Eckhard & Vytautas Jankauskas & Elena Leuschner & Ian Burton & Tilman Kerl & Rita Sevastjanova, 2023. "The performance of international organizations: a new measure and dataset based on computational text analysis of evaluation reports," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 18(4), pages 753-776, October.
    5. Hauke Feil, 2021. "The cancer of corruption and World Bank project performance: Is there a connection?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 39(3), pages 381-397, May.
    6. Ortega Nieto,Daniel & Hagh,Ariya & Agarwal,Vivek, 2022. "Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants ofWorld Bank Project Success," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10144, The World Bank.

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    Keywords

    environmental assistance; global environmental assistance; World Bank projects;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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