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Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness : Assessing the Determinants ofWorld Bank Project Success

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  • Ortega Nieto,Daniel
  • Hagh,Ariya
  • Agarwal,Vivek

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Can an implementation-driven analysis of project success be used as a more granular instrument forassessing the effectiveness of World Bank project By focusing on how projects perform, this paper attempts tocapture variation hitherto unexplored in the aid effectiveness literature. This offers greater precision fordiagnosing implementation challenges throughout the project cycle, producing a cross-cutting instrument that reachesacross country-, time-, and sector- based approaches. Using data from the Global Delivery Initiative's “DeliveryChallenges in Operations for Development Effectiveness” database and indicators from more than 5,000 lendingprojects (1995 – 2015), the paper examines project performance and the achievement of development objectivesacross 42 specific delivery challenges. Bayesian model averaging is used for a holistic assessment of the relativeimpacts of each challenge alongside a battery of structural and contextual covariates. The findings show that issues ofproject design, ineffective monitoring, and weak organizational capacity have systematically hindered theWorld Bank's performance and achievement of the indicators. Conversely, while financial instability andweaknesses in stakeholder engagement can hinder success, their identification and treatment ultimately improvesproject performance.

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  • 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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