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Addressing groundwater depletion: Lessons from India, the world’s largest user of groundwater
India is home to 16% of the world’s population, but only holds 4% of the world’s freshwater resources.
Not only is water scarce in India, but the extraction of groundwater has been on the rise for decades. Since…
Meet The Evaluator: Soniya Carvalho
On International Youth Day, IEG spoke with Soniya Carvalho, a Lead Evaluation Officer, who has spent over three decades working in international development. During this time, she has focused on areas such as knowledge…
So, you want to reduce fiscal and financial vulnerabilities to better prepare for the next crisis?
Proactively strengthening institutions for crisis preparedness can make the difference between whether a country bounces back quickly from an unexpected shock or struggles for years to regain its footing.
Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities
This evaluation assesses World Bank Group support to client countries to build resilience to exogenous shocks. Proactively reducing fiscal and financial sector vulnerabilities and strengthening…
World Bank Group Support to Energy Efficiency: An Independent Evaluation of Demand-side Approaches (Approach Paper)
Energy efficiency contributes, first and foremost, to addressing climate change, but it also to addressing three other critical development challenges: firm productivity, energy security, and household energy…
World Bank Support to Aging Countries
This evaluation is the first at the Independent Evaluation Group to assess the World Bank’s contribution to diagnosing client countries’ demographic issues related to population aging.
Benin – Ninth and Tenth Poverty Reduction Support Credit
Ratings for the Ninth and Tenth
Poverty Reduction Support Credit project are as follows:
Outcome was moderately unsatisfactory, Risk to development
outcome was substantial, Bank…
What do cities need to grow equitably, sustainably and build resilience?
Cities will be home to 2 billion new residents by 2045. Accommodating this growth will require large-scale development of land in and around urban areas. For lower‐income cities, this will be challenging since they tend…
Managing Urban Spatial Growth
This evaluation offers IEG’s first systematic assessment of the World Bank’s support to the management of urban spatial growth.
The private sector in low income and fragile countries needs more than credit
Lessons from the early implementation of the IDA Private Sector Window (PSW)