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Can the World Bank "kick" this Habit?
On October 8, IEG convened a panel to discuss why the World Bank seems to have a hard time ensuring that its projects and programs are systematically informed by experience from the past and analysis from available data…
[Getting to] Informed Solutions from the Solutions Bank
Can the World Bank get better at systematically leveraging the best evidence - from data and past experience – when shaping new development projects and programs?
Financial Inclusion: A Foothold on the Ladder toward Prosperity?
Financial inclusion—access by poor families and microenterprises to financial services—has been an objective of the World Bank Group for a long time, reaffirmed in 2013 by President Jim Kim's commitment to the Universal…
What will it take to achieve electricity for all by 2030?
To understand the scale of the challenge, consider the facts. Today, over one billion people have no access to electricity. About 600 million of these people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. And according to a recent…
IEG LIVE: What will it take to achieve Electricity Access for All by 2030?
Watch a replay of the panel discussion about the World Bank Group's role in the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, as well as IEG's evaluation of World Bank Group support to electricity access.
Improving Coverage and Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services in Lao PDR: Impact Evaluation of the Community Nutrition Project
The World Bank supported the Community Nutrition Project (CNP) in Lao PDR from 2009 to 2013 to respond to the global food crisis of 2007-08. The project was administered through a conditional cash transfer (CCT) with a…
IEG Annual Report 2015 - Deepening Impact
The report highlights IEG's knowledge sharing and illustrates how it is helping the World Bank Group meet its twin goals.
Self-Evaluation: Shaping Recognition and Rewards
The famous "elephant in the room": we all want to learn from our own experiences, but at the cost of critical self-evaluation?
Turkey - First Programmatic Electricity Sector Development Project and Second and Third Programmatic Environmental Sustainability and Energy Sector Development Policy Loan Project
The program represents one of the relatively few closed Development Policy Operations with environmental goals outside the Latin America and Caribbean Region. The experience of the electricity sector in Turkey has been…
Informed Solutions from the Solutions Bank - Getting more Bank for the Buck
This paper highlights the conundrum faced by World Bank in the way it uses learning and evidence to drive decision-making. It provides evidence for the existence of the conundrum, explores the reasons for its existence…