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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…
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'…
Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2014
The year 2015 is pivotal in international development. As the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concludes, work continues to take forward the unfinished MDG agenda and to define and meet the more ambitious…
Social Safety Nets and Gender: Learning from Impact Evaluations and World Bank Projects
This systematic review analyzes the available impact evaluation evidence on the effect of Social Safety Nets (SSNs) on gender-related results such as increasing women's bargaining power and decision-making, improving…
Investment Climate Reforms
This evaluation finds that the World Bank Group has supported a comprehensive menu of investment climate reforms. These reforms were generally supported in the right countries and generally addressed the right areas of…
Tunisia Country Program Evaluation, FY05–13
From FY05 to FY13, the World Bank Group program in Tunisia aimed to support government in: (i) strengthening the business environment, improving competitiveness, and increasing the global integration of the Tunisian…
World Bank Group Support to Health Financing
This is the first evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group's support to countries trying to address health financing issues.
The World Bank's Partnership with the GAVI Alliance
The global partnership review focuses on the performance of the Bank in the three roles that the Bank plays in GAVI: development partner at global and country level (that is, joint donor in the health sector); financial…
World Bank Group Support to Public-Private Partnerships
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have seen a rise in the last two decades and are now used in more than 134 developing countries, contributing about 15-20 percent of total infrastructure investment. Nonetheless, most…
Learning and Results in World Bank Operations: How the Bank Learns
As the world's leading development finance agency, the World Bank has, in principle, an unrivaled opportunity to promote learning and knowledge sharing about development effectiveness. Bank lending has fallen in…