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Measuring development outcomes of private sector investments: results, risks and outcome types
The private sector plays a critical role in promoting sustainable and inclusive development across the world. In view of its importance, a range of actors invest now in promoting the private sector in developing…
Toward Productive, Inclusive, and Sustainable Farms and Agribusiness Firms
This report assesses the relevance and effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to its clients on helping them develop more productive, inclusive, and sustainable farms and agribusiness firms.
Reducing Disaster Risks from Natural Hazards
This evaluation focuses on the World Bank’s support for reducing disaster risks caused by natural hazards. Expanding disaster risk reduction plays a central role in achieving the World Bank’s goals for climate change…
Evaluation of World Bank Support for Public Sector Transparency and Accountability: Anticorruption, Justice, and External Audit Functions (Approach Paper)
Supporting client countries in building an open and accountable public sector that serves the needs of all citizens is core to economic development. Within any public sector, there are specific institutions or entities…
Poverty Mapping: Innovative Approaches to Creating Poverty Maps with New Data Sources
This guide provides an overview of the use of both traditional and novel data sources in generating poverty maps and the related methodological implications.
Chad - Completion and Learning Review of the Country Partnership Framework for FY16-FY20 : IEG Review
This review of the World Bank Group’s
(WBG) Completion and Learning Review (CLR) covers the period
of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF), FY2015-FY2020,
and updated in the…
Unlocking the potential of the private sector in conflict-affected situations
Up to two-thirds of the world’s extreme poor will live in conflict-affected situations (FCS) by 2030, according to World Bank Group (WBG) estimates. Advancing development outcomes in FCS is therefore central to the WBG’…
The Promise and Perils of Global Indicators: Doing Business and the Reform of the Business Enabling Environment
Global indicators can be very helpful, but they also require some caution in their use. Global indicators draw our attention to problems and provide metrics to compare across economies and over time.
Finding the right path: A decade of the World Bank Group in Bangladesh
As Bangladesh continues in its efforts to transition to middle-income status, a new evaluation assesses World Bank Group support to one of the largest IDA borrowers.