Structure, activities of the World Bank and evaluation of the World Bank financed projects and its effects in Turkey

The World Bank, built as an important part of the Bretton Woods System in 1944, undertook important missions and a pioneer role as an important actor for the development aid sources in the international monetary system. The Bank has supported important projects and government programmes in order to ensure economical and social improvement of the developing countries since it was founded. The mission of the Bank has transformed in order to accommodate with world conjuncture which is varied throughout time.Nowadays, there are serious criticisms for the World Bank that has a mission of ?working for a world free of poverty?. International Organizations, especially the World Bank, have responsibility for abating the disastrous affects of ?Globalization? on both developing countries and their poor people.Turkey became a member of The World Bank in the 1947 and the relationship has reached up today by solidifying. Various applications, notably, within the framework of ?Liberalization Programme of Turkish Economy?, disclosed in 24th January 1980, have been implemented in the direction of liberalization in commodity, exchange, capital and labor markets. Parallel to these improvements, as with other international organizations, relationship between Turkey and World Bank started to be stronger and Turkey?s credit portfolio in World Bank continued increasingly.World Bank credits have cheaper and more flexible conditions for member countries in general when they are compared with other financial alternatives issued in the international financial markets. Funds that have been taken from World Bank by Turkey is focused on macroecononomic stability, growth, increasing in productivity and major on competitive environment in markets.In Turkey?s participation process to European Union, The Bank?s aids continued and coordinated works with IMF to provide economic stability has accelerated. The World Bank arranges the flow of credit by Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) which composes the outline of financial and technical support of The World Bank in Turkey since 2000.International Organizations and countries, which are giving important financial supports to Turkey, have common strategies and cooperative efforts with the World Bank on Turkey. To benefit from these supports, Turkey should ensure the necessary coordination.Keywords: World Bank, IBRD, Project and Policy Loans, Project Cycle, MEER Project, Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), Financial Conditions of the Loans