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Lessons from Shifting Paradigms in Disaster Risk Reduction

🎧 Lessons from Shifting Paradigms in Disaster Risk Reduction

Disasters caused by natural hazards increasingly threaten the lives and livelihoods of the world’s poor. Climate change is exacerbating the severity and impact of disasters by contributing to more destructive…
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Woman holding crop of peanuts. Mali. Photo: Ray Witlin / World Bank

What have we learned about job creation in crop agriculture?

This blog is part of a two-part series based on the results of a Learning Engagement focused on ways to increase the contribution of World Bank crop agriculture and fisheries projects to job creation and economic…
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New Delhi/India - Jan 24 2020 , yulu electric bike non polluted vehicle , rider at Vijay chowk. Photo: PradeepGaurs/ShutterStock

Towards greener travel for the holidays and beyond

The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) recently published an Evaluation Insight Note (EIN) exploring the key challenges and opportunities in the World Bank’s support for decarbonizing transport. The EIN is a new product…
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2022 External Review of the Independent Evaluation Group

This is the third External Review of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) commissioned by the World Bank Group (WBG) Board of Executive Directors (Board) and overseen by the Committee on Development Effectiveness (…
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Lessons for building on the World Bank’s unprecedented health and social response to COVID-19

Lessons for building on the World Bank’s unprecedented health and social response to COVID-19

By the time COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the World Bank Group had already committed up to $160 billion in financing in response to the outbreak and had aligned its support with the World Health…
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Structured Literature Reviews

This paper provides an overview of the use of structured literature reviews towards promoting greater reliability in the use and reporting of evidence in evaluations.
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Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2022

Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2022

This report, also known as the RAP, is the 2022 annual review of the World Bank Group’s development effectiveness. As a new contribution, this 12th edition of the RAP analyzes outcomes and performance at the country…
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Mr. Gregory K. Ingram, Director for OED, speaking at OED's 30th anniversary event in 2002, Preston Auditorium, Washington, D.C. Seated from left are Ms. Jan Piercy, former US Executive Director and CODE Chair; Mr. Prem C. Garg, Director, Quality Assurance Group; and Ms. Joanne Salop, Vice President for Office of the Managing Director. Photo: World Bank Group/Michele Iannacci

The World Bank and the legacy of the Wapenhans report

Thirty years ago, the Wapenhans report sounded the alarm over the World Bank’s worsening portfolio quality and sparked changes in how the Bank manages the quality of its projects. This blog, the second of a two-part…
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Orange sunset and cloud over cityscape Kiev, Ukraine, Europe

Ukraine: Lessons to inform the (hopefully) not too distant future

An evaluation of a decade of World Bank Group support for Ukraine has important lessons for eventual stabilization and reconstruction.
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Orange sunset and cloud over cityscape Kiev, Ukraine, Europe

Україна: Досвід, який стане підґрунтям для прийняття рішень у (сподіваємося) недалекому майбутньому

Аналіз допомоги, яку Група Світового банку надавала Україні протягом останніх десяти років, визначає важливі уроки для подальшої стабілізації та відбудови
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