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Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities

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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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City view of Bogotá, Colombia on January 11, 2016. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World 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…
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Contrasting the rapid growth of informal settlements  and high rise buildings in the city of Salvador, Brazil—taken with a drone January 2021—by Johnny Miller / Unequal Scenes

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.
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Kitabi Tea Processing Facility A worker sorts the green leaf tea before it reaches the main processing floor. The Kitabi Tea Processing Facility in Kitabi, Rwanda has a capacity of 48 000 tons of green leaf per day. The facility employs 200 people during its peak season and about 70 during the rest of the year. Photo: A'Melody Lee / World Bank

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)
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Employees of Vita Foam working in Freetown, Sierra Leone on June 19, 2015. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank

The World Bank Group’s Experience with the IDA Private Sector Window: An Early-Stage Assessment

This report is an early-stage assessment of the World Bank Group’s experience with the International Development Association (IDA) Private Sector Window (PSW).
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Meet the Evaluator: Bekele Shiferaw discusses the nexus between natural resources and human development

Meet the Evaluator: Bekele Shiferaw discusses the nexus between natural resources and human development

As IEG marked World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought earlier this month, we spoke with Bekele Ambaye Shiferaw, who spent much of his long career focused on environmental degradation and how to stop it. Along…
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The Drive for Financial Inclusion: Lessons of World Bank Group Experience – Approach Paper

Financial inclusion is expected to help address poverty and shared prosperity by improving and smoothing household incomes at the same time as reducing vulnerability to shocks, improving investments in education and…
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