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  In recognition of the role of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in improving the quality and delivery of basic services, the World Bank Group has expanded its support over the past decade for infrastructure…

Monitoring and Evaluation: A Closer Look The Global Evaluation Initiative  A global partnership to support evaluation capacity development IEG is a proud partner…

IEG consistently produces evaluations that analyze the results of the World Bank Group’s gender work at the corporate/strategic level. Most recently, the Gender Mid-Term Review (MTR) focused on assessing the processes…

World Bank assistance to its clients can be provided in the form of a Development Policy Financing (DPF). This could be a loan, grant or credit which provides rapidly-disbursing financing to help a borrower address the…

IEG evaluates how well the World Bank Group’s policies, processes, and instruments work. These evaluations cut across sectors and practices. For example, we review: Lending instruments Corporate strategies…

Past lessons for the current crisis

Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) present critical development challenges that threaten efforts to end extreme poverty. The World Bank Group has launched its first-ever Strategy for Fragility, Conflict and…

Even before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, a resurgence in debt stress among low-income countries (LICs) was evident. Helping countries achieve debt and fiscal sustainability will be critical for…

The WBG is supportive of an open, rules-based, predictable multilateral trading system, and among its objectives are to help countries participate in and enjoy the benefits of such a system. Key strategies for reaching…

  The World Bank Group’s first goal, to end extreme poverty within a generation, has the specific target of decreasing the global extreme poverty rate to no more than 3 percent by 2030, since a small amount of…