Promoting environmentally sustainable development

In its first review of the World Bank's environmental policies and activities since the Bank's Environment Department was created in 1987, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) finds that Bank performance has substantially improved. The Bank has mitigated the negative effects of many of its development interventions, helped governments build environmental institutions and programs, and produced solid policy analysis and economic and sector work-but it has not yet integrated environmental concerns fully into its core objectives or its country assistance and sector strategies.