Roughly two thirds of the World Bank's Country Assistance programs have had satisfactory outcomes.
| Highly Satisfactory: |
The assistance program achieved at least acceptable progress toward all major relevant objectives, and had best practice development impact on one or more of them. No major shortcomings were identified. |
| Satisfactory: |
The assistance program achieved acceptable progress toward all major relevant objectives. No best practice achievements or major shortcomings were identified. |
| Moderately Satisfactory: |
The assistance program achieved acceptable progress toward most of its major relevant objectives. No major shortcomings were identified. |
| Moderately Unsatisfactory: |
The assistance program did not make acceptable progress toward most of its major relevant objectives, or made acceptable progress on all of them, but either (a) did not take into adequate account a key development constraint or (b) produced a major shortcoming, such as a safeguard violation. |
| Unsatisfactory: |
The assistance program did not make acceptable progress toward most of its major relevant objectives, and either (a) did not take into adequate account a key development constraint or (b) produced a major shortcoming, such as a safeguard violation. |
| Highly Unsatisfactory: |
The assistance program did not make acceptable progress toward any of its major relevant objectives and did not take into adequate account a key development constraint, while also producing at least one major shortcoming, such as a safeguard violation. |
