Evaluation of the impact of EIB financing on Regional Development in Greece

The present evaluation has assessed Greek projects financed by the Bank that were completed over the period corresponding to the first two Community Support Frameworks (CSF), i.e. 1989-2000. It therefore evaluates: 1) projects selected before the Bank started producing an annually revised medium-term Corporate Operational Plan (COP - the COP provides a tool for setting future lending priorities); 2) in the particular case of an Objective 1 country, projects selected before the Bank adopted new guidelines in 2001 to improve the appraisal of regional development projects.