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This issue of the knowledge note series highlights major studies recently completed by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). The latest food and economic crises showed that international organizations, including the…

This Lesson note highlights findings from recent IEG reports on social safety nets, education and health programs.

With over 1 billion people around the world going hungry every day, agriculture and sustainable resource management are more critical than ever. IEG has recently turned its attention to assessing the response to the…

This Lesson Note highlights findings from recent IEG private sector studies on the economic crisis, private sector development, agriculture and agribusiness and climate change.

This Lesson Note provides a summary of findings from recent IEG studies on education, health and poverty reduction.

This Lesson Note summarizes findings from recent IEG studies on infrastructure.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this potential depends on an enabling environment for their production, diffusion, and use. Otherwise, technology can…

  The World Bank Group’s first goal, to end extreme poverty within a generation, has the specific target of decreasing the global extreme poverty rate to no more than 3 percent by 2030, since a small amount of…

  Transportation plays a pivotal role in the fight against poverty. Services provided by sustained investments in roads, railways, transit systems, along with ports for trade by air and water can support…

This review examines the implementation of the Fiscal Years (FY) 2008-2011 Joint Assistance Strategy (JAS) of The Gambia and the JAS Progress Report (JASPR) of FY 2009, and assesses the JAS Completion Report (JASCR).…