Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions

More than a decade has passed since the global economic and financial crisis rocked the world. A clear lesson that emerged from it was the importance of identifying and addressing country-specific vulnerabilities ex ante to build resilience when a...

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Main Author: Independent Evaluation Group
Format: Evaluation
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-360082021-07-23T05:11:21Z Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions Independent Evaluation Group FISCAL TRENDS FINANCIAL SECTOR WORLD BANK GROUP OPERATIONS WORLD BANK-IMF COLLABORATION SAFETY NETS More than a decade has passed since the global economic and financial crisis rocked the world. A clear lesson that emerged from it was the importance of identifying and addressing country-specific vulnerabilities ex ante to build resilience when a shock occurs. The 2020 global economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19 serves as a yet another stark reminder of the importance of proactively managing vulnerabilities to shocks. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess World Bank Group support to client countries to build resilience to exogenous shocks through the systematic identification of fiscal and financial sector vulnerabilities and through efforts to support the reduction of these vulnerabilities. Given the importance of protecting the most vulnerable from shocks, this evaluation also looks at the extent to which the Bank Group has helped client countries adapt their social safety nets so that they can be effectively scaled up in a crisis. It aims to inform the design of future Bank Group strategies, operations, diagnostics, and knowledge products that can help reduce country-level fiscal and financial sector vulnerabilities. Its lessons may also help the effort to “build back better” after the COVID-19 pandemic through contributions to increasing resilience by strengthening fiscal and financial buffers and institutions. 2021-07-22T14:53:16Z 2021-07-22T14:53:16Z 2021-07-21 Evaluation http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/143541626874329106/Addressing-Country-Level-Fiscal-and-Financial-Sector-Vulnerabilities-An-Evaluation-of-the-World-Bank-Group-s-Contributions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36008 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: IEG Evaluation
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topic FISCAL TRENDS
FINANCIAL SECTOR
WORLD BANK GROUP OPERATIONS
WORLD BANK-IMF COLLABORATION
SAFETY NETS
spellingShingle FISCAL TRENDS
FINANCIAL SECTOR
WORLD BANK GROUP OPERATIONS
WORLD BANK-IMF COLLABORATION
SAFETY NETS
Independent Evaluation Group
Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions
description More than a decade has passed since the global economic and financial crisis rocked the world. A clear lesson that emerged from it was the importance of identifying and addressing country-specific vulnerabilities ex ante to build resilience when a shock occurs. The 2020 global economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19 serves as a yet another stark reminder of the importance of proactively managing vulnerabilities to shocks. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess World Bank Group support to client countries to build resilience to exogenous shocks through the systematic identification of fiscal and financial sector vulnerabilities and through efforts to support the reduction of these vulnerabilities. Given the importance of protecting the most vulnerable from shocks, this evaluation also looks at the extent to which the Bank Group has helped client countries adapt their social safety nets so that they can be effectively scaled up in a crisis. It aims to inform the design of future Bank Group strategies, operations, diagnostics, and knowledge products that can help reduce country-level fiscal and financial sector vulnerabilities. Its lessons may also help the effort to “build back better” after the COVID-19 pandemic through contributions to increasing resilience by strengthening fiscal and financial buffers and institutions.
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title Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions
title_short Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions
title_full Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions
title_fullStr Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions
title_full_unstemmed Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Contributions
title_sort addressing country-level fiscal and financial sector vulnerabilities : an evaluation of the world bank group’s contributions
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/143541626874329106/Addressing-Country-Level-Fiscal-and-Financial-Sector-Vulnerabilities-An-Evaluation-of-the-World-Bank-Group-s-Contributions
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