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Assessing International Development Association’s support for jobs
A new evaluation finds that the jobs strategy of the International Development Association (IDA) has had a positive effect on employment in low-income countries and offers recommendations for how its interventions could…
World Bank Support to Jobs and Labor Market Reform through International Development Association Financing
This evaluation is the first stage of the Independent Evaluation Group’s assessment of the World Bank’s support for more, better, and more inclusive jobs through IDA financing, and it assesses the implementation of IDA-…
Georgia Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper)
The Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support of Georgia in achieving its development objectives. It will evaluate how the Bank Group program has adapted over time to…
An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Jobs and Labor Market Reform through International Development Association Financing (Approach Paper)
The International Development Association (IDA) has included jobs as a special theme since the 17th Replenishment of IDA (IDA17) in 2014, when it explicitly recognized the role played by labor markets in intermediating…
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…
Conversations: Leveraging the Private Sector for Sustainable Development in FCV - What does it take?
IEG · Leveraging the Private Sector for Sustainable Development in FCV: What does it take?
Since the inception of the 2011 World Development Report (WDR 2011), the World Bank Group’s approach to Fragility,…
International Finance Corporation Country Diagnostics and Strategies Under IFC 3.0: An Early-Stage Assessment (Approach Paper)
In December 2016, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) introduced its latest strategy, IFC 3.0, which aimed to enhance IFC’s development impact by creating “new and stronger markets for private sector solutions…
The Development Effectiveness of the Use of Doing Business Indicators
This evaluation assesses the strategic relevance of the Doing Business indicators to both the development agenda of the World Bank Group and the reform priorities of its client countries. It also examines the…
World Bank Group Engagement with Morocco 2011–21 (Approach Paper)
This Country Program Evaluation aims to assess the World Bank Group’s contribution to Morocco’s development trajectory over the past decade (fiscal years 2011–21) and is timed to inform the next Country Partnership…
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…