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Bangladesh : Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project
In response to the government of Bangladesh’s strong commitment to a sustainable and diversified agriculture sector, the World Bank has been supporting the government to enhance agriculture productivity with investments…
Vietnam : Livestock Competitiveness and Food Safety Project
The project development objective of the Vietnam Livestock Competitiveness and Food Safety Project—as stated in the financing agreement dated December 10, 2009—included the following three elements: “increase production…
Vietnam : Transmission Efficiency Project
This report assesses the implementation experience and outcomes of the Transmission Efficiency Project, implemented in Vietnam from 2015 to 2021, with a project cost of $517.53 million, including International Bank for…
Unfulfilled Promises: Using GPT for Synthetic Tasks
In our previous blogs, we shared our findings and recommendations for six experiments that ended up working quite well. For the next three experiments, we wanted to test GPT’s performance on more advanced tasks that…
The World Bank Group’s 2018 Capital Increase Package
This report presents the Independent Evaluation Group’s validation of the World Bank Group’s 2018 capital increase package (CIP). It assesses the World Bank Group’s progress in implementing the CIP’s policy measures and…
Financial Inclusion
This evaluation explores how and with what effect the World Bank Group has supported financial inclusion for the microenterprises, poor households, women, and other excluded groups.
Adaptive Social Protection for Effective Crisis Response: Independent Evaluation Group Evaluation of the World Bank’s Contribution (Approach Paper)
Interconnected and often devastating covariate shocks are a threat to human development. Covariate shocks are shocks that affect large numbers of people or communities at once and can be natural, economic, or political…
Fulfilled Promises: Using GPT for Analytical Tasks
In our previous blog, we set the stage for the nine experiments we conducted to test out the promises and the perils of GPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) for evaluation practice. In this entry, we’ll share…
Setting up Experiments to Test GPT for Evaluation
Since OpenAI’s “ChatGPT” caused a frenzy with its entrance into the world at the end of 2022, a lot of hype has developed around generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), including in the…
Culturally responsive evaluation: How do different regions approach it?
Evaluations of development activity can be more effective when they consider the cultural context of the country or region where the intervention was focused. At a recent panel discussion to mark 50 years of independent…