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South East Asia where the Bank provided US$ 4.7 billion (35%) for 67 projects to ten countries,
East Asia 18%, West Asia 9% and the Central Asia has the least funding US$165 million (1%)
under four projects for higher education.
5.3.12 Evaluation of the Bank’s projects
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is an independent unit within the World Bank Group.
It was established in 1973. The IEG consists of three parts:
IEG-World Bank- it evaluates the activities of the IBRD and IDA.
IEG-IFC- it assesses the work of IFC.
IEG-MIGA- it evaluates the contributions of MIGA.
The principal goals of IEG‟s evaluations are to learn from Bank Group‟s experience, to assess
the achievement of set objectives and to provide an objective basis for future policies and
planning. The process of evaluation helps improve the WBG performance, efficiency and
effectiveness. The IEG has produced more than 1000 evaluation documents, 68 of them contains
education including seven documents on higher education. Among these 68 documents, 26 of
them are on Asian regions, including only two documents on Asian higher education.
5.3.12.1 Evaluation of the WB projects on higher education
IEG-World Bank has produced only two evaluation documents on Asian higher education. The
evaluation documents on are:
India: Education Sector Development in the 1990s;
Tertiary Education: Lessons from a Decade of Lending, FY1990-2000
5.3.12.2 India: Education Sector Development in the 1990s
This paper is a background papers prepared as an input to the India Country Assistance
Evaluation. Findings, presented in this paper, are based on multiple resources: a review of
project appraisal and completion reports, sector reports, and other documents including Bank‟s
documents on India and research studies on Indian education.
According to this document, until the late 1980s, the government of India strongly resisted
external funding for education programs. But later on the demand for financial resources
increased as the Indian government set the goal of universal elementary education