Arabica Robusta's List: World Bank 'satisfactory' projects

Despite mounting political instability in Chad and little tangible evidence of poverty reduction nearly four years after the start of oil production, the World Bank maintains that it is still “premature” to draw any final conclusions regarding the success of the petroleum development project. At the same time, the Bank’s “Implementation Completion Report,” issued in December 2006, rates performance on achievement of project objectives as “satisfactory.”