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Peru - Lima Transport Project
This Project Performance Assessment Report evaluates the Lima Transport Project (2003-11) in Peru. The project supported the goal of the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima to enhance economic productivity and quality of…
Why Evaluation Matters for Gender Equality
Despite the progress made over the last two decades, women still lag behind men when it comes to economic opportunity, education, employment and participation in decision-making. Influencing change is hard enough…
Annual Report 2014: Expanding Influence
In FY14 IEG responded to changes at the World Bank Group by delivering a number of highly appreciated evaluations that spoke to issues on the change agenda and informed policy choices and new beginnings. This 2014…
Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality - What does the evidence show?
An IEG study looks at what interventions work best to reduce the number of deaths among mothers, newborns and children under 5 years of age.
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Completion and learning review for the period FY2012-15 : IEG review
The FY12-15 Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) was prepared nearly two decades following Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BH's) declaration of independence from Yugoslavia in 1992. Although peace had finally taken root and the…
Honduras - Completion and learning review for the period FY2012-15 : IEG review
Honduras is a lower middle-income country facing significant challenges, with more than two thirds of the population living in poverty and five out of ten suffering from extreme poverty (2012). In rural areas, 6 out of…
Egypt, Arab Republic of - Completion and learning review for the period FY06-FY14 : IEG review
This CLR covers several years of political stability, followed by revolution and a subsequent new regime that was overthrown by armed forces. Against this background, the World Bank Group program underwent two distinct…
Video: World Bank Group Support to Financial Inclusion
Watch a short video summary of the findings of IEG's recent evaluation: Financial Inclusion - A Foothold on the Ladder toward Prosperity?
Growing the Rural Non-Farm Economy to Alleviate Poverty: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Group Support 2004-2014 (Approach Paper)
Assisting the development of the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) is essential to the
World Bank Group's twin goals of poverty alleviation and shared prosperity. The non-farm
economy is a crucial pathway out of poverty…
Mali - Completion and learning review for the period FY2008-15 : IEG review
This review covers both Mali's Country Assistance Strategy (CAS, FY08-FY11) and Interim Strategy Note (ISN, FY14-FY15). IEG rates the achievement of combined results under the CAS and the ISN as unsatisfactory. The CAS…