Social Contracts and World Bank Country Engagements : Lessons from Emerging Practices
World Bank emphasizes the importance of social contracts to eliminate poverty and boost shared prosperity. In the 2014 World Bank Group Goals, the World Bank calls for social contracts that prioritize the poor while creating the conditions for equi...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/674111571327444300/Social-Contracts-and-World-Bank-Country-Engagements-Lessons-from-Emerging-Practices-IEG-Meso-Evaluation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32621 |
| Summary: | World Bank emphasizes the importance of
social contracts to eliminate poverty and boost shared
prosperity. In the 2014 World Bank Group Goals, the World
Bank calls for social contracts that prioritize the poor
while creating the conditions for equitable growth. This
learning-oriented evaluation generates lessons from the
World Bank’s experience using social contract diagnostics to
help countries reshape their social contracts. It does this
by:(i) evaluating the quality and value added of social
contract diagnostics; (ii) assessing how social contract
diagnostics are translated into operations; (iii)
identifying the risks and challenges of integrating social
contract diagnostics into operations; and (iv) drawing
lessons on how to overcome these challenges. At the country
level, this evaluation identified 21 Systematic Country
Diagnostics (SCDs) that use a social contract framing to
diagnose and explain complex development challenges such as
entrenched inequalities, poor service delivery, weak
institutions, and why decades of policy and institutional
reforms promoted by external development actors could not
fundamentally alter countries’ development paths. |
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