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The Big Business of Small Enterprises

The Big Business of Small Enterprises

An in-depth assessment of the World Bank Group’s targeted support for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).
Evaluation

What is the Value of Independent Evaluation?

Organizations like drivers can suffer from blind spots. Independent evaluation can help provide a broader view.
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Targeted Support to Small and Medium-Size Businesses (2006-2012) (French)

Le Groupe de la Banque Mondiale s'emploie à promouvoir la croissance des petites et moyennes entreprises par des interventions à la fois systémiques et ciblées. L'un des défis majeurs consiste à établir, à…
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The Big Business of Small Enterprises - Evaluation of the World Bank Group Experience with Targeted Support to Small and Medium-Size Businesses (2006-2012)

The World Bank Group promotes small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and targeted interventions. A critical challenge is to root the many activities now undertaken in this broad space in a…
Reports

When Rating Performance, Start with Yourself

Faced with growing demands for evidence-based decision making and measurable results, do we need to look for new ways to evaluate the evaluators?
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Jamaica - Fiscal and Debt Sustainability Development Policy Project

This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) is part of a set of project performance assessments exploring g development outcomes in different country contexts that are faced with particular challenges during the…
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gender equality, focus on gender

Keeping the Focus on Gender Equality

Ahead of International Women’s Day, I argue that in order to realize the Bank’s twin goals we need to internalize gender equality into our solutions and our evaluations.
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Mozambique - Enterprise Development Project

The project's development objective was to broaden the base of private participation in Mozambican economic growth, through (i) increasing the competitiveness of Mozambican private firms; (ii) enhancing access to term…
Reports

Djibouti - Country assistance strategy completion report (CASCR) review for the period FY2009-13 : IEG review

This review examines the implementation of the FY2009-FY2012 Djibouti Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) of FY2009, and assesses the CAS Completion Report (CASCR). The CAS was implemented by IDA. The CAS program was…
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Indonesia - Land Management and Policy Development Project

This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) reviews the Indonesia Land Management and Policy Development Project implemented during fiscal years 2004-2009. The project's development objectives consisted of (a)…
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