World Bank Project Success Ratings for Post-Conflict Aid Analysis

The Independent Evaluation Group dataset provides information on World Bank projects, including independent success ratings and supervision quality. The associated paper by Lisa Chauvet investigates the probability of project success in post-civil war situations, analyzing factors like sector and peace duration. It finds that success probability increases with peace duration and that supervision is a crucial determinant, especially in early years.

Use Cases

• Predicting aid project success based on project characteristics and post-conflict context.
• Analyzing the impact of supervision quality on project outcomes in different sectors.
• Identifying sector-specific patterns of success (e.g., transport, urban development, education) in post-conflict environments.
• Modeling how the probability of project failure changes over time following peace agreements.

Strengths

• Includes independent success ratings for projects, providing an objective outcome measure.
• Contains data on supervision and evaluation quality, a key variable identified in the analysis.
• Focuses on a specific and policy-relevant context: post-conflict aid effectiveness.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank.

Collection Method

Likely contains project-level evaluation data collected by the IEG.