Summary

Defines the World Bank's medium- and long-term agendas for improving its assistance to Sub-Saharan African countries that are striving for environmentally sustainable development. The volume addresses several major issues: 1) The key environmental problems in Sub-Saharan Africa and the long-term implications for thirty years down the road 2) How the World Bank has assisted in the integration of environmental concerns in development efforts in the past decade and the lessons learned from successes and failures 3) The specific steps that the World Bank should take in the future to better assist its borrowers on their path to environmentally sustainable development.