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Jim Adams

Tanzanian shillings (Kevin Harber/Flickr/CC BY NC-ND 2.0)

Toxic Aid: a review

by Jim Adams
November 21, 2017
Jim Adams presenting at the 2015 PNG Update

Private sector reservations and policies

by Jim Adams
July 24, 2015

Policy choices matter, even for the resource-rich

by Jim Adams
July 23, 2015
Jim Adams presenting at the 2015 PNG Update

Capacity building: how to do better

by Jim Adams
July 17, 2015
Jim Adams presenting at the 2015 PNG Update

Capacity building: important but unsuccessful

by Jim Adams
July 16, 2015

Africa’s economic reform experience: lessons for the Pacific

by Jim Adams
November 21, 2013

Jim Adams

Jim Adams retired in 2012 after 37 years at the World Bank. His last assignment was as the Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific (2007-2012), where he worked on and travelled extensively in the Pacific island region. He spent almost half of his career working on Africa, leading the Bank's program as the Regional Director in Kenya in the late 1980s and as Country Director in Tanzania and Uganda from 1995-2002. From 2002 to 2007 he served as the head of operational policy in the Bank, overseeing a program directed at making the Bank more responsive to its clients' needs.
Among his current duties, Jim Adams serves as Chair of DFAT's Independent Evaluation Committee.

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