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This review of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Completion and Learning Review (CLR) covers the FY11-FY16 Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) and its adjustments through the FY15…

The government of Indonesia committed approximately $600 million to fund the reconstruction and rehabilitation of approximately 255,000 homes in the earthquake-affected areas. Several development partners also…

Around the turn of the millennium, based on lessons learned from projects in Bolivia and elsewhere, the World Bank began tinkering with the model of decentralized, community-driven development, trying to make it a more…

This brief captures the lessons from evaluating the World Bank’s Public Expenditure Support Facility (DPL-DDO) in Indonesia.

Bolivia’s poor maternal and child health outcomes were of great concern in the 1990s. Infant and child mortality rates were 67 and 92 per 1,000 live births in 1998, and maternal mortality was 390 per 100,000 live births…

This Project Performance Assessment Review (PPAR) evaluates the Indonesia Public Expenditure Support Facility (PESF), a $2 billion development policy loan (DPL) with a deferred drawdown option (DDO) implemented between…

This brief captures the lessons learned from evaluating the World Bank’s Indonesia Climate Change Development Policy Loan (CCDPL).

Ratings for the Climate Change Development Policy Loan Project for Indonesia were as follows: outcomes were moderately unsatisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, the Bank performance was moderately…

What can resource-rich countries do to beat the resource-curse and better weather the cyclical nature of commodities markets?

Rapid growth until 2012 led to a rapid decline in poverty, with the poverty headcount ratio reaching 11.3 percent in 2014. The fast pace of growth slowed down since 2013 thereby…