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Untapped potential for decarbonization: Scaling up energy efficiency
Using less energy to do the same work is the single action with the biggest potential gain on decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere. A new report assesses World Bank Group support for energy…
Evaluating Budget Support
With increasing amounts of development finance delivered as budget support, and the prominent role this form of fast disbursing, non-earmarked support played during the global pandemic, this two-part series explores the…
Exploring how and why the International Finance Corporation investment projects make a unique contribution in middle-income countries
Our new report finds that the vast majority of International Finance Corporation (IFC) investment projects in Middle-Income Countries (MICs) made a unique contribution that commercial sources of finance did not offer,…
International Finance Corporation Additionality in Middle-Income Countries
This report examines the relevance and effectiveness of IFC’s approach to additionality in Middle-Income Countries (MICs) and seeks to explain the factors that contribute to or constrain its realization.
Brazil : Sustainable Production in Areas Previously Converted to Agricultural Use Project
This is a Project Performance
Assessment Report by the Independent Evaluation Group of the
World Bank Group on the Sustainable Production in Areas
Previously Converted to Agricultural…
The World Bank Group in Mozambique: Lessons from a success story gone awry
An evaluation of the World Bank’s engagement in Mozambique between 2008 and 2021 finds that purely technical solutions to development challenges are unlikely to achieve desired results unless governance constraints are…
O Grupo Banco Mundial em Moçambique: lições de uma história de sucesso que se desviou
Graças ao seu forte crescimento económico e a medidas de redução da pobreza, Moçambique foi um caso de sucesso de desenvolvimento até 2016. Nas duas décadas após o fim da guerra civil que terminou em 1992, o…
The World Bank Group in Mozambique, Fiscal Years 2008–21
This evaluation assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s engagement with Mozambique during Fiscal Years 2008-21.
An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Jobs and Labor Market Reform through International Development Association Financing (Approach Paper)
The International Development Association (IDA) has included jobs as a special theme since the 17th Replenishment of IDA (IDA17) in 2014, when it explicitly recognized the role played by labor markets in intermediating…
Evaluation of the World Bank’s Support to Procurement and Its Principles (Approach Paper)
In 2015, the World Bank approved a new procurement framework with the aim of reforming its approach to procurement. The overall objective was to enhance the World Bank’s development effectiveness, continue to exercise…