Title of Presentation | Presenter | Description |
| Management Perspectives: Changes in Importance and Goals of World Bank Policy-Based Lending | Stefan Koeberle | This presentation (currently not available) draws on the Adjustment Lending Retrospective completed by OPCS in mid FY01. It discusses the new instruments that the Bank is using for its Policy Based Lending. These include the Poverty Reduction Strategy Credit, which is a major new instrument for policy based lending. |
| Public Expenditure Reform Credits and Evolution towards PRSCs in Benin (pdf - 107kb) | Chuck Humphreys | Presentation on the importance of budget and public expenditure reform for poverty reduction, using Benin as a case example. Discussion of the two different types of Bank lending, investment (lending with receipts) and adjustment (lending without receipts).
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| Programmatic Approaches -- Risks & Opportunities, Skills and Behaviors (pdf - 339kb) | Klaus Tilmes | Presentation on the new skills that will be required for the successful implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Credits. These programmatic adjustment loans are closely tied to the budget cycle of the client government and require close cooperation between Bank sectoral specialists and with government officials. Presentation looks at the benefits and risks of this approach and where Bank staff will need to move in order to implement it successfully.
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Lessons Learned from the Uganda PRSCÂ (pdf - 30kb)
| Ritva Reinikka | Presentation discusses the Uganda Poverty Reduction Strategy Credit with a strong emphasis on how the instrument and the agenda interacted. The Task Team Leader focuses on the nature of the partnership between Ugandans and the Bank, the need for coordination between Bank teams and government and the power of strong support from the top. She also discusses Uganda's recent past, which included a civil war in the early 1990s, and emphasizes that the country's successes in developing systems to collect and use poverty information for policy decisions can be replicated. |
| Shifting to Cross-Sectoral, Programmatic Support -- The Uganda Experience (pdf - 54kb) | Nadim Matta and Patrice Murphy | This draft case study was written by Nadim Matta and Patrice Murphy on the basis of interviews with the Uganda PRSC team. It describes the PRSC process from the point of view of the Bank specialists carrying out the work. It is written in an an informal, approachable style and its primary focus is on the way that the members of the team interacted with one another and with the government of Uganda.
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| Tranching, Conditionality and Reform in the Russia Coal SECALÂ (pdf - 150kb) | Ashraf Ghani | This presentation contrasts the treatment of conditionality and tranche release in the first and second Russia Coal Sectoral Adjustment Loans. It discusses how changes in the nature of conditions and the indicators for measuring success helped bring about change. Also discusses the institutional and organizational focus underlying the conditionalities chosen.
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| Social Impact Analysis -- SD Points of Entry (pdf - 698kb) | Anis Dani | Presentation describes the ideas behind Social Impact Analysis, the scope of planned implementation and opportunities for SD staff to participate in national-level dialogues through SIA work.
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| Poverty Reduction Strategies and Credits -- Participation and SD Points of Entry (pdf - 37kb) | Parmesh Shah | Presentation on past experience with participation in the formulation of Poverty Reduction Strategies and Credits (PRSPs and PRSCs) and potential SD points of entry.
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| Global and Regional Patterns in Adjusment Lending (pdf - 97kb) | Ashraf Ghani | Presentation discusses global and regional 'policy menu' for Bank operations. Looks at the type and scope of reforms that the Bank favors overall, then discusses the emphasis in different regions. Notes that 80% of the risks that Task Team Leaders identify for adjustment operations are social or political in nature.
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| SDV Review Note for Adjustment Lending Retrospective | None -- Supporting material
that expands on the themes
of the previous presentation | This paper (currently not available) describes the World Bank's 'policy menu', the policies that are most frequently suggested by the Bank as part of adjustment loans. It then looks at regional patterns within this larger policy menu in order to identify regional specificities in adjustment goals. The paper also discusses the risks that adjustment operations most frequently cite as critical-- 80% of the risks cited in the 54 SAL/SECAL loans reviewed were social or political. Thus the majority of the identified risks to national-level adjustment operations come from social and political currents rather than specific macroeconomic events.
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