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Learning and Results in World Bank Operations: Toward a New Learning Strategy
This report is the second in a program of evaluations that the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is conducting on the learning that takes place through World Bank projects. Learning and knowledge are treated as parts…
Professionalizing Evaluation - The Canadian Experience
The President of the Canadian Evaluation Society talks to IEG about taking the first step towards professionalization.
World Bank Group Support to Industrial Competitiveness and Its Implications for Jobs (Approach Paper)
This evaluation directly fills a gap in that it addresses a topic that, although of growing importance to the World Bank Group and its clients, has not been comprehensively evaluated to date. Earlier evaluations by the…
World Bank Support to Early Childhood Development
This evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group examines the Bank's design and implementation of projects across sectors supporting ECD interventions to inform future operations and provide inputs to the new Global…
How Does Knowledge on Public Expenditures Integrate with the Design of Development Policy Operations?
Integration of knowledge with lending is an enduring theme in World Bank strategies at the corporate and country levels. The Bank lending instruments could be more relevant and produce better results if they…
Maximizing Development Impact in IDA (Concept Note)
Numerous IEG evaluations address issues that are relevant to IDA's development impact. With the aim of helping inform the discussions for the IDA18 replenishment, the planned learnig product will use a desk exercise to…
From Development Evaluation to Development Effectiveness
Does evaluation support African success in a new global context?
The Poverty Focus of Country Programs
This evaluation examines how, and how well, the Bank Group has focused its support on poverty reduction over in the past decade, and what lessons to draw from this moving forward. The lessons aim to strengthen the Bank'…
The Poverty Focus of Country Programs: Lessons from World Bank Experience
The World Bank Group in 2013 made the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030 a central institutional focus and purpose. This evaluation examines how, and how well, the Bank Group has focused its support on poverty…