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Gender in the Design and Outcomes of World Bank Adult Literacy and Skills Project (Working Paper)
This paper reviews the relevance and extent to which gender differences were addressed in World Bank adult literacy and skills projects. The paper was prepared as part of the IEG evaluation of the 2001 World Bank Gender…
Can a Market-Assisted Land Redistribution Program Improve the Lives of the Poor? Evidence from Malawi
This paper evaluates the Malawiâs Community Based Rural Land Development Project (CBLDP), which provides a conditional cash and land transfer to a group of families to relocate to larger and more productive plots of…
Can a Market-Assisted Land Redistribution Program Improve the Lives of the Poor? Evidence from Malawi
This paper evaluates the Malawiâs Community Based Rural Land Development Project (CBLDP), which provides a conditional cash and land transfer to a group of families to relocate to larger and more productive plots of…
Evaluation of IFC's Poverty Reduction Focus and Results (IEDR) 2010
IFC's vision and purpose puts poverty alleviation at the core of the institution's mandate. Although poverty reduction is often articulated in strategy documents, operational policies, and lending and non-lending…
The World Bank Group’s Response to the Global Economic Crisis - Phase 1
This IEG study is a real- time assessment of ongoing activities. As such, it evaluates the immediate results and serves as an input to the WBG's continuing efforts to address the effects of the crisis. The evaluation of…
Panama - Country assistance strategy completion report (CASCR) for the period FY2008-FY2010 : IEG review
The FY08-FY10 Panama Country
Partnership Strategy (CPS) was a joint strategy by the Bank
and IFC. This review examines the implementation of the
FY08-10 CPS, as revised by the 2009…
Water and Development: World Bank Support, 1997-2007 - (FTB)
This is a Fast Track Brief for the Water and Development: World Bank Support, 1997-2007, study. Almost a third of all Bank projects approved since 1997 have been water related. Water lending grew 55 percent in…
Do Health Sector-Wide Approaches Achieve Results? Emerging Evidence and Lessons from Six Countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzania
This study distills evidence from six countries (Bangladesh, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Nepal, Malawi, and Tanzania) to address four questions regarding Sector-wide Approaches (SWAps) in the health sector: (1) Were the…
Tunisia - Country assistance strategy completion report (CASCR) for the period FY2005-FY2008 : IEG review
This review covers the FY05-08
Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and the CAS progress
report of 2008. The FY05-FY08 assistance strategy was
designed to help reduce unemployment,…
Global Program Review: The Stop TB Partnership
The Stop TB Partnership is a network of more than 900 international and national public and private sector organizations and individuals aiming to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) as a public health problem. Located in the…