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Financial Inclusion: A Foothold on the Ladder toward Prosperity?
Financial inclusion—access by poor families and microenterprises to financial services—has been an objective of the World Bank Group for a long time, reaffirmed in 2013 by President Jim Kim's commitment to the Universal…
IEG Annual Report 2015 - Deepening Impact
The report highlights IEG's knowledge sharing and illustrates how it is helping the World Bank Group meet its twin goals.
Informed Solutions from the Solutions Bank - Getting more Bank for the Buck
This paper highlights the conundrum faced by World Bank in the way it uses learning and evidence to drive decision-making. It provides evidence for the existence of the conundrum, explores the reasons for its existence…
Transforming Our World - Aiming for Sustainable Development
In order to draw relevant insights from past development experiences, the Independent Evaluation Group looked at several recent evaluations that speak to the SDGs as well as the World Bank Group's engagement with the…
Joint Evaluation of Budget Support to Uganda (2004-2013)
This joint evaluation was managed by the European Commission (EC) and IEG. It covers 2004 to 2013, a period when Uganda experienced robust economic growth.
External Review of the Independent Evaluation Group
The Committee on Development Effectiveness of the World Bank Group commissioned an independent panel to conduct an external review of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).
World Bank Group Engagement in Resource-Rich Developing Countries: The Cases of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Zambia
The Clustered Country Program Evaluation (Clustered CPE) includes a synthesis report and four separate country program evaluations of World Bank Group engagement in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Kazakhstan,…
World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014
This evaluation assessed the contributions of the World Bank Group to increasing electricity access during fiscal year (FY)2000–2014. It sought to answer the question: To what extent has the World Bank Group been…
Learning and Results in World Bank Operations: Toward a New Learning Strategy
This report is the second in a program of evaluations that the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is conducting on the learning that takes place through World Bank projects. Learning and knowledge are treated as parts…
World Bank Support to Early Childhood Development
This evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group examines the Bank's design and implementation of projects across sectors supporting ECD interventions to inform future operations and provide inputs to the new Global…