The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE) highlights the findings of recent IEG evaluations around a common theme, synthesizing lessons that can be used to increase the development effectiveness of World Bank assistance. Recent reviews in the series have focused on the World Bank's contribution to poverty reduction, how the Bank's programs are helping client countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and the effectiveness of Bank support for policy reform.

For the World Bank and its partners, the ever-present test is to deliver results-to lift people out of poverty and promote socially and environmentally sustainable development. Achieving such success in any individual country is increasingly intertwined with making progress on shared global challenges.

The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness, and independent evaluation, presents evidence on the Bank's efforts in two important and connected areas: tracking outcomes of Bank projects and country programs; and progress in fostering global public goods, such as protecting the earth's climate and preventing the spread of dangerous communicable diseases.

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