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Why, What, and How of World Bank Group Strategy: What Evaluations Tell Us about the Promise and Potential Pitfalls of Reform
In the fall of 2012, President Jim Kim launched a series of consultations as well as a wide ranging diagnostic of the why, what, and how of World Bank strategy and reform. Over the past five years, IEG evaluations…
Managing Forest Resources for Sustainable Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Experience
A decade ago, the World Bank Group shifted its approach in the forest sector by putting poverty alleviation and sustainable economic development on equal footing with conservation. It was a bold move given the risks and…
Risk Management at the World Bank Group: What IEG Evaluation Tell Us
In recent years, the World Bank Group has come to recognize risk management as a central tenet of its own business strategy as well as an emerging development priority for lower- and middle-income countries. This brief…
Restoring Confidence and Transforming Institutions: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Group Assistance to Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (Approach Paper)
Fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) have become an important focus of World Bank Group assistance in recent years as recognition of the linkages between fragility, conflict, violence, and poverty has grown.…
Environment and Natural Resources
Environmental concerns such as pollution, erosion and deforestation affect everyone, but the poorest countries have the most to lose. They are impacted the most by environmental destruction, and have the…
Climate Change
Climate change is one of the biggest long-term risks to global development. This makes choices and investment made in climate change mitigation and adaption vital for ensuring sustainable and inclusive growth…
Adapting to Climate Change: Assessing World Bank Group Experience
This evaluation draws lessons from World Bank Group experience with adaptation to both current levels of climate variability and ongoing climate change.
Youth Employment Programs - An Evaluation of World Bank and IFC Support
The early work situation of young people has welfare consequences for their future. Addressing youth employment issues is a major concern for governments, and is all the more challenging where stable economic policies…
Brazil: World Bank Group Country Program Evaluation - 2004 - 2011 (Approach Paper)
This is an approach paper for the evaluation of the World Bank Group Country Program implemented in Fiscal Years (FY) 2004-2011. With a landmass in excess of 8.5 million square kilometers and a population of almost 200…
Malawi - Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) completion report review for the period FY07-FY12 : IEG CASCR review
This review examines the implementation of the Fiscal Years (FY) 2007-2010 Malawi Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and the CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of FY 2009, and assesses the CAS Completion Report (CASCR). IFC did…