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Reliable and Affordable Off-Grid Electricity Services for the Poor: Lessons from World Bank Group Experience
This learning product draws upon existing IEG evaluations, project documents and analytical work relating to the World Bank Group’s experience with supporting off-grid electrification in client countries.
Powering Africa: Strategies for Scaling up Electricity Access
Despite the progress made over the last fifteen years, more than a billion people around the world still lack access to electricity.
Public-Private Partnerships in Health
Access to essential health services is an important aspect of development. Governments from both developed and developing countries are increasingly looking at public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a way to expand…
Guatemala - Completion and learning review for country partnership strategy for the period FY2013-2016 : IEG review
This Review assesses the design and implementation of the World Bank Group’s (WBG)
Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Guatemala covering the period FY13-16. Following the
shared approach methodology, the program’s…
Improving Children's Learning and School Participation in Developing Countries – What Works?
The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) are hosting a panel discussion on the value of 3ie’s recent systematic review on education effectiveness…
Industry Policy and Jobs - Are We Missing the Point?
Industrialization can contribute significantly to growth. And yet despite the potential, many countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, are experiencing deindustrialization at a rate that threatens hundreds of…
Kingdom of Cambodia : Public Financial Management and Accountability Project
The World Bank extended support to Cambodia through the Public Financial Management and Accountability Project (PFMAP) during a time when 30 percent of the population lived below the poverty line, human development…
Improving Urban Transport: 5 Lessons from Senegal
This brief captures the lessons learned from evaluating the World Bank’s Senegal Urban Mobility Improvement Project.
Can Capital Markets Bridge the Trillion Dollar Development Financing Gap?
What insights can we draw from the World Bank Group’s own experience in supporting capital markets in developing countries?
Lessons from Policy-Based Guarantees
This report by the Independent Evaluation Group looks at the World Bank Group’s experience with implementing policy based guarantees – a relatively new and important tool in development finance. The paper looks at the…