A
AfDB
African Development Bank
AfDB
African Development Bank
B
BMCs
Borrowing member countries
C
CARTAC
Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre
CDB
Caribbean Development Bank
CDF
Comprehensive Development Framework (World Bank)
CERDI
Research Center on International Development, University of Clermont Ferrand.
CPIA
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment by the World Bank. It rates countries against a set of 16 criteria grouped in four clusters: (i) economic management; (ii) structural policies; (iii) policies for social inclusion and equity; and (iv) public sector management and institution.
D
DAC
Development Assistance Committee—of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
DDO
Deferred drawdown option: a budget support operation with a contingent credit line that allows the borrower to rapidly meet its financing requirements following a shortfall in resources caused by adverse economic events.
DFID
The UK’s former Department for International Development.
DPF
Development policy financing
DPO
Development Policy Operation
DRM
Domestic resource mobilization
E
EBRD
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC
European Commission
EIB
European Investment Bank
EU
The European Union
EU MFA
The European Union provides macro financial assistance by disbursing directly to treasury with some structural reforms.
F
FCV
Fragility, conflict, and violence
FDI
Foreign direct investment
G
GDP
Gross domestic product
GEF
The Global Environment Facility
GNI
Gross national income
I
IBRD
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
IDA
International Development Association
IDB
Inter-American Development Bank
IED
Independent Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank
IEG
Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group
IFIs
International Financial Institutions
IMF
International Monetary Fund
L
LICs
Low-income countries
M
MCC
Millennium Challenge Corporation
MDB
Multilateral development banks
MDGs
Millennium Development Goals
MfDR
Management for development results
MICs
Middle-income countries
MIGA
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
O
ODA
Official Development Assistance
OECD-DAC
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/Development Assistance Committee
OIE
Office of Independent Evaluation, Caribbean Development Bank
OVE
The IDB’s Office of Evaluation and Oversight
P
PBC
Performance based conditionality
PBF
Policy based finance
PBG
Policy based guarantee
PBL
Policy based lending
PBO
Policy based operations
PBPs
Programmatic policy-based loans
PEFA
Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability
PFM
Public financial management
PforR or P4R
Program for Results. Disbursement of funds to the Treasury that is conditioned on achieving targets of key indicators in a results framework rather than policy reform.
PRSC
Poverty Reduction Support Credit (World Bank)
S
SALs
Structural Adjustment Loans
SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals
SECALs
Sector Adjustment Loans
SMART
Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound
U
UNCTAD
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development