Abstract
In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country. In 2016-17, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group conducted an evaluation on how well the World Bank Group has been pursuing the shared prosperity goal in its strategies, projects, and key knowledge products, and what lessons can be learned from the early implementation experience with the new goal of shared prosperity. To inform that evaluation, a comprehensive survey among World Bank Group staff graded F and above was set up to elicit staff views and understanding of the goal and gauge how World Bank Group staff have operationalized the objective in their day-to-day work. The survey builds on good practice design in the literature as well as actions to strengthen the response rate. This paper reports on the design, methodology (including issues of sampling, questionnaire testing, data collection, and response rate), implementation, and results from that web-based survey. The results imply potential institutional actions to strengthen the World Bank Group's effectiveness in implementing the goal in the future.
Highlights
Introduction and overview of resultsOn April 20, 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank adopted two ambitious goals: eliminate global extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in every country in a sustainable way
As World Bank staff members are a critical asset for reaching organizational objectives and a key resource for organizational learning and improvement, we designed, pilot-tested and implemented a web-based survey to elicit staff views and understanding about the shared prosperity goal and to gauge how World Bank Group (WBG) staff have operationalized the objective in their day-to-day work
The survey results indicate that 36 percent of staff graded F and above are not familiar with the way the WBG has defined shared prosperity
Summary
On April 20, 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank adopted two ambitious goals: eliminate global extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in every country in a sustainable way The latter has been officially defined as boosting the income growth of the poorest 40 percent in each country and reflects the conviction that economic growth and development should benefit everyone in a society (World Bank, 2015). To put these goals front and center of its work program, the WBG undertook an extensive internal reorganization and reoriented its country client model towards the new goal of shared prosperity. Lack of familiarity with the concept is greater among IFC than Bank staff
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