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2004 ARDE
The 2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness: The Bank's Contributions to Poverty Reduction, looks at the recent growth and poverty reduction experience of client countries. It assesses the extent to which Bank interventions have contributed to growth and poverty reduction and the effectiveness of different types of interventions. The review uses the key elements of the Bank's 2001 poverty reduction strategy to examine the extent to which these elements respond to the needs of the poor, are actually being carried out, and are having an impact.
The ARDE finds that the World Bank has made much progress at the corporate level in focusing its mission, assistance strategies, and instruments on poverty reduction. The Bank's 2001 poverty reduction strategy appropriately highlights both the growth and social aspects of poverty reduction, and the strategy has provided a workable operational framework for identifying and categorizing the Bank's interventions. But the Bank faces challenges at the country and project levels in articulating and measuring the linkages between its interventions and their expected and actual poverty outcomes.
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