The evaluation examines the developmenteffectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support for tradefacilitation and identifies lessons for future engagement.The World Bank Group has played a leading role in tradefacilitation reform over the past 12 years, havingidentified lowering trade costs as a crucial means topromote its development agenda.Among its contributions,the Bank Group has been a leading technical partner to theWTO during the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) processthroughout the evaluation period.Main findings of thereport include: (i) Over the evaluation period, the WorldBank Group has demonstrated leadership in facilitating tradethrough its broad scope of work: (893 interventions of alltypes) in addition to Advisory and Analytic work, generallytargeting countries with the greatest bottlenecks, results,in its contribution to a substantial reduction ofinternational trade costs, and its creation of global publicgoods through thought leadership, convening power, and itstrade facilitation indicators - which contributed to apositive dynamic in reforms. (ii) Most World Bank Groupprojects supporting trade facilitation reforms achievedtheir development objective, and all three institutionsexceeded their corporate scorecard targets.The WorldBank’s investment lending appears to be substantially moreeffective than its policy operations. At the tradefacilitation intervention level, the overall success rateaveraged 79 percent.
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