Performance Evaluation, Criticism of the World Bank and Cost Benefit Analysis of the World Bank Financed Projects - Case of Turkey

By Ergul Haliscelik, Policy Paper, Undersecretariat of Treasury Board of Treasury Controller, Ankara, November 2009 (Updated December 2010)

 The World Bank Group is composed of 5 closely associated institutions which  have different missions and specialize in different aspects of development. But they use their comparative advantages to work collaboratively toward the same overarching goal of  poverty reduction. The term "World Bank" refers specifically to the IBRD and IDA and mostly it is used for only IBRD.....

In this study I  examined  structure,  activities, mission and performance of the World Bank,  types of funds and their sectoral-regional distributions, relations with member countries, financial sources and  phases (project cycle) of  Bank financed projects. After that,  I  evaluated World Bank financed projects and its effects in Turkey by examining Turkey-WB relations. I gave my personal findings, criticisms and recommendations on these issues...

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