IEG Publications

The following is a list of thematic, sector and corporate evaluations produced by IEG. To search for Project Performance Assessment Reports, Working Papers, Approach Papers and other IEG documents, see "Browse by Document Type" menu on the right.

Recent Evaluations

Adapting to Climate Change: Assessing World Bank Group Experience (Phase III Report)
Full Report | Overview | Website

Youth Employment Programs
Full Report | Overview | Website

The Matrix System at Work
Full Report | Overview | Website

The World Bank Group's Response to the Global Economic Crisis: Phase II
Full Report | Overview | Website

World Bank Progress in Harmonization and Alignment in Low-Income Countries
Full Report

World Bank Country-Level Engagement in Governance and Anticorruption: An Evaluation of the 2007 Strategy and Implementation Plan
Full Report | Overview | Website

Capturing Technology for Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Activities in Information and Communication Technologies
Full Report | Overview | Website
Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2011
Volume I: Main Report | Vol. 2: Annexes | Vol. 3: Mgmt Action Record | Overview | Website
Social Safety Nets: An Evaluation of World Bank Support 2000-2010
Full Report | Overview | Website
World Bank Support to Global and Regional Partnership Programs
Full Report | Overview | Website
Trust Fund Support for Development: An Evaluation of the World Bank's Trust Fund Portfolio
Full Report | Overview | Website
MIGA's Financial Sector Guarantees in a Strategic Context
Full Report
Assessing IFC's Poverty Focus and Results
Full Report | Overview |Website
The World Bank Group's Response to the Global Economic Crisis
Full Report | Overview | Website
Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness
Full Report | Overview | Website
Safeguards and Sustainability Policies in a Changing World
Full Report | Executive Summary | Website
Climate Change and the World Bank Group:
The Challenge of Low Carbon Development
Full Report | Executive Summary | Website

Past Evaluations
Africa Action Plan World Bank Support to Education since 2001: A Portfolio Note
Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2010 Clmate Change and the World Bank Group Phase I: An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms
Cost-Benefit Analysis in World Bank Projects Gender and Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 2002-08
World Bank Assistance to Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa Improving Municipal Management for Cities to Succeed
Annual Review of Development Effectiveness: Achieving Sustainable Development Improving Effectiveness & Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP)
World Bank Engagement at the State Level: The Cases of Brazil, India, Nigeria and Russia The World Bank Group Guarantee Instruments 1990- 2007
Annual Review of Development Effectiveness: Achieving Sustainable Development Improving Effectiveness & Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP)
Poverty Reduction Support Credits Evaluation of World Bank Support for Public Sector Reform
Water and Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 1997-2007 Analyzing the Effects of Policy Reform on the Poor
The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government
Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support World Bank Assistance to the Financial Sector
What Can We Learn from Nutrition Impact Evaluations? A Decade of Action in Transport
Taking the Measure of the World Bank-IFC Doing Business Indicators World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters
Using Training to Build Capacity for Development World Bank Support for Primary Education
Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2008: Shared Global Challenges Water Management in Agriculture: Ten Years of World Bank Assistance, 1994-2004
The Welfare Impact of Rural Electrification: A Reassessment of the Costs and Benefits World Bank Support for Community-Based and -Driven Development
Decentralization in Client Countries An Evaluation Update of the HIPC Initiative
Using Knowledge to Improve Development Effectiveness Assessing World Bank Support for Trade, 1987-2004
How Effective Are World Bank Fiduciary Diagnostics? Pension Reforms and the Development of Pension Systems
Development Results in Middle-Income Countries Improving the Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS Assistance
The Development Potential of Regional Programs Improving the World Bank's Development Effectiveness
World Bank Support to Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS)    

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Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2012