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This document discusses questions of what impact evaluation is about, when it is appropriate, and how to do it. The Network of Networks for Impact Evaluation (NONIE) was established in 2006 to foster more and better…

This literature review has two main objectives. The first is to survey the findings on effectiveness of trade facilitation measures on outcomes such as trade flows, and trade costs. The second objective is to gain a…

While much has been written on early childhood development and the near-term benefits to children selected to participate in interventions, few studies look at the sustained impacts of these programs. This systematic…

The World Bank supported the Community Nutrition Project (CNP) in Lao PDR from 2009 to 2013 to respond to the global food crisis of 2007-08. The project was administered through a conditional cash transfer (CCT) with a…

Gender equality is widely accepted as an essential component of effective development, and in the past two decades it has progressively taken center stage in the international development community. As the third…

Improved outcomes for women and children—more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes—have broad individual, family, and societal benefits.

The targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been a bellwether for progress, particularly for maternal and child health. After more than a decade of effort, these goals have proved difficult to attain and…

This dataset includes information used in the "Delivering the Millennium Development Goals To Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality" evaluation. 

The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world’s population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting…

It is often claimed that inefficient business regulations and procedures lock enterprises into a vicious circle of informality, where firms have little effective access to financing and are constrained in their ability…