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The Mystery of Mixing Methods
Despite significant progress on mixed methods approaches, their application continues to be (partly) shrouded in mystery, and the concept itself can be subject to misuse.
Argentina : Buenos Aires urban transport project
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) assesses the development effectiveness of the Buenos Aires Urban Transport Project in Argentina. The project’s objectives were to support joint private sector–public…
Laos - Completion and learning review for country partnership framework for the period FY2012-FY2016 : IEG Review
Lao PDR is a small, landlocked, lower middle income country that for some years has enjoyed rapid economic growth (around 7.8 percent over the past decade including the CPS period). In 2015, GNI per capita was $1,740,…
Arab Republic of Egypt : second pollution abatement project
Egypt’s rapid population growth (from 36 million in 1973 to 91.5 million in 2015), combined
with its economic development and industrialization policies and weak environmental
management, have resulted in widespread…
Rethinking Evaluation - What is Wrong with Development Effectiveness?
The way we look at development effectiveness needs a facelift.
Tax Revenue Mobilization - Lessons from World Bank Group Support for Tax Reform
This learning note reviews existing IEG evaluative evidence on the Bank Group’s support to tax policy and administration reform produced by the Independent Evaluation Group over FY2005-15. It identifies the drivers of…
Cameroon - Completion and learning review for country partnership framework for the period FY10 - FY14 : IEG review
Cameroon is a lower middle income, resource-rich country with large potential. Due to its location, the country is the gateway to the economies of Central Africa and plays a central role in the Central African Economic…
Putting Behavior Change at the Center of Development and Evaluation
By putting people at the center of the development process, we start to understand why they choose what they do and the constraints they face.
Evaluation for Results-Oriented Management - What Can Development Stakeholders Learn from the Michelin Guide?
At its heart, the Guide Michelin represents an evaluation system par excellence.
Ghana: agriculture development policy operations, phase I – IV
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) assesses the outcome and sustainability of two consecutive World Bank–financed programmatic series of DPOs in the agriculture sector in Ghana with a total disbursement…