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Evaluation of Bank Support for Gender (Approach Paper)
The purpose of the evaluation will primarily be to foster learning based on the Bank Group's (IBRD and IDA) experience with the aim of improving and enhancing the development effectiveness of future Bank interventions,…
Lessons from Past Financial Crises: IEG Evaluation Brief
This briefaddresses lessons from World Bank Group interventions in past financial crises. These lessons are relevant in helping the WBG and countries to confront the most severe global financial crisis in recent decades…
Global Program Review: The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
Established in 1995, theÃÂ Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)ÃÂ is a consortiumÃÂ of public and private agencies located in the World Bank with the mission of expanding access to financial services for the…
India - Country assistance strategy (CAS) completion report review : IEG review
In the late 1990s the Bank adopted a
strategy in India that focused on supporting reform at the
level of the State Governments. The essence of the strategy
was to identify a group of…
Independent Evaluation o f IFC's Development Results (IEDR): 2009 Knowledge for Private Sector Development Enhancing the Performance o f IFC Advisory Services (Approach Paper)
This is an approach paper for the 2009 IEDR, which will have two parts with one cross cutting theme: the development effectiveness and additionality of IFC's interventions. The first part o f the report would present…
India - Telecommunications Sector Reform Technical Assistance Project
This is the Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) for the India Telecommunications Sector Reform Technical Assistance Project, which was intended to support the reform of the country's telecommunications sector…
Employment Creation and Earnings Growth:
An Assessment of World Bank Support in
Three Middle-Income Countries (Approach Paper)
This approach paper proposes an evaluation of World Bank support for earnings growth and employment creation in three middle-income countriesâColombia, Tunisia, and Turkey. All three countries received significant…
Decentralization in Client Countries: An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 1997-2007
Developing countries have decentralized functions and responsibilities for service delivery to lower levels of government at an increasing pace in recent years. The main reasons for such reforms are often political, but…
Supporting Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Experience, 1990-2007
The Bank Group's lending and non-lending support for environmental sustainability has increased and improved over the past 15 years. But the institution needs to raise the priority it accords to this area of rising…
An Independent Evaluation of the World Bank/IFC Doing Business Indicators
The Doing Business Indicators, an annual World Bank-IFC publication launched in 2004, has become one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. This independent evaluation of the Doing Business Indicators assesses…