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.

The "results agenda" adopted by the World Bank and other donors aims to ensure that development assistance yields sustainable poverty reduction. Effective poverty reduction results from three main factors: sustained and inclusive growth, effective service delivery to the poor, and capable public sector institutions that are accountable to stakeholders for the results they achieve.

The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2006: Getting Results assembles evaluative evidence around three questions central to poverty reduction:

• How effectively has economic growth translated into poverty reduction in Bank-assisted countries and what factors have affected these results?
  
  
• What factors have led to high-quality results in areas that deliver services to the poor?
  
  
• What measures help raise the accountability of public institutions responsible for delivering and sustaining these results?  MORE >
  

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