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Here we go again: Debt sustainability in low-income countries
Having cut my teeth on issues of debt sustainability in the mid-1990s working on the design and implementation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC), I can’t help but have a feeling of déjà vu as…
Lessons from Ebola for the fight against Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
The World Bank’s support for countries facing deadly Ebola outbreaks contain some pertinent lessons for the current fight against COVID-19—and responses to future disease outbreaks.
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What have we learned from the World Bank’s Support to Address Ebola Outbreaks?
What have we learned from the World Bank’s Support to Address Ebola Outbreaks?
What have we learned from support for Ebola outbreaks? Over the past five years, Ebola has seized global interest in relation to the…
So, you want to reduce fiscal and financial vulnerabilities to better prepare for the next crisis?
Proactively strengthening institutions for crisis preparedness can make the difference between whether a country bounces back quickly from an unexpected shock or struggles for years to regain its footing.
Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities
This evaluation assesses World Bank Group support to client countries to build resilience to exogenous shocks. Proactively reducing fiscal and financial sector vulnerabilities and strengthening…
World Bank Group Support to Energy Efficiency: An Independent Evaluation of Demand-side Approaches (Approach Paper)
Energy efficiency contributes, first and foremost, to addressing climate change, but it also to addressing three other critical development challenges: firm productivity, energy security, and household energy…
World Bank Support to Aging Countries
This evaluation is the first at the Independent Evaluation Group to assess the World Bank’s contribution to diagnosing client countries’ demographic issues related to population aging.
Early Evaluation of the World Bank’s COVID-19 Response to Save Lives and Protect Poor and Vulnerable People (Approach Paper)
Disrupting billions of lives and livelihoods, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic jeopardizes countries’ development gains and goals on an unprecedented scale. Restoring human capital and maintaining progress on…
Innovating Evaluation in Multilateral and Bilateral Agencies:
Dealing with operational challenges during the COVID-19 crisis.
Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2021 – Concept Note
The Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (RAP) report is the annual review of evidence from IEG evaluation and validation work on the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group (WBG). It will be the…