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The World Bank Group's Support for Agriculture and Agribusiness (Approach Paper)

The World Bank Group has provided support for agriculture/agribusiness operations amounting to about 19 percent of Bank lending and for food and agribusiness operations amounting to about 7 percent of IFC investment…
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Evaluation of Bank Support for Gender (Approach Paper)

The purpose of the evaluation will primarily be to foster learning based on the Bank Group's (IBRD and IDA) experience with the aim of improving and enhancing the development effectiveness of future Bank interventions,…
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Lessons from Past Financial Crises: IEG Evaluation Brief

This briefaddresses lessons from World Bank Group interventions in past financial crises. These lessons are relevant in helping the WBG and countries to confront the most severe global financial crisis in recent decades…
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Global Program Review: The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)

Established in 1995, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) is a consortium of public and private agencies located in the World Bank with the mission of expanding access to financial services for the…
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India - Country assistance strategy (CAS) completion report review : IEG review

In the late 1990s the Bank adopted a strategy in India that focused on supporting reform at the level of the State Governments. The essence of the strategy was to identify a group of…
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Independent Evaluation o f IFC's Development Results (IEDR): 2009 Knowledge for Private Sector Development Enhancing the Performance o f IFC Advisory Services (Approach Paper)

This is an approach paper for the 2009 IEDR, which will have two parts with one cross cutting theme: the development effectiveness and additionality of IFC's interventions. The first part o f the report would present…
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India - Telecommunications Sector Reform Technical Assistance Project

This is the Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) for the India Telecommunications Sector Reform Technical Assistance Project, which was intended to support the reform of the country's telecommunications sector…
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Employment Creation and Earnings Growth:
An Assessment of World Bank Support in
Three Middle-Income Countries (Approach Paper)

This approach paper proposes an evaluation of World Bank support for earnings growth and employment creation in three middle-income countries—Colombia, Tunisia, and Turkey. All three countries received significant…
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Decentralization in Client Countries: An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 1997-2007

Developing countries have decentralized functions and responsibilities for service delivery to lower levels of government at an increasing pace in recent years. The main reasons for such reforms are often political, but…
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Supporting Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Experience, 1990-2007

The Bank Group's lending and non-lending support for environmental sustainability has increased and improved over the past 15 years. But the institution needs to raise the priority it accords to this area of rising…
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