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The World Bank Group A to Z provides ready-reference insight into the history, mission, organization, policies, financial services, and knowledge prod...
An Evaluation of World Bank Group Assistance
This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group in helping its member countries improve their investment climates, within the conte...
The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the...
Phase I
The World Bank Group has responded to the global economic crisis with a strong countercyclical expansion of financing. Its disbursements of 80 billion...
What Works and Why? : an IEG Evaluation of World Bank Support
The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank suppor...
An Evaluation of World Bank Support of Multicountry Operations
The need to promote increased trade, prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and ensure adequate water resources are some of the development challenges genera...
This report addresses IEG's work over the last year, summarizing findings from its evaluations and discussing the trends that are revealed as they rel...
Governance and the Law
Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outc...
An Evalution of the World Bank's Project-Based and WBI Training
The World Bank finances about US$720 million in training every year, through both its lending projects and its in-house World Bank Institute (WBI). Th...
The Turning of the Tide?
Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report. Published semiannually, the report includes analysis of topical policy challenges fac...
Rebuilding Investor Confidence in Times of Uncertainty
The Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2019-2020 provides novel analytical insights, empirical evidence, and actionable recommendations for gove...
Relevance and Effectiveness
The use of impact evaluat ......
Toward Prosperity, Creativity, Equity, and Democracy
Thirty years of Ä?ổi Má»›i (economic renovation) reforms have catapulted Vietnam from the ranks of the world’s poorest countries to one o...
Learning from the Past, Embracing the Future
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IEG Annual Report 2010
This review provides an independent assessment of the World Bank Group's performance in achieving key development objectives, with a special focus on ...
Financial Inclusion
The second issue in a new series, Global Financial Development Report 2014 takes a step back and re-examines financial inclusion from the perspective ...
An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters
An evaluation carried out by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), an autonomous body reporting directly to the Board of Executive Directors of the ...
New Drivers of Growth
After more than three decades of average annual growth close to 10 percent, China's economy is transitioning to a 'new normal' of slower but more bala...
Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009
This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009 is part of IEG s country program evaluation series. To date, IEG s in-depth c...
Global growth is expected to decelerate sharply, reflecting synchronous policy tightening aimed at containing very high inflation, worsening financial...
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of World Bank Support to Poverty and Social Impact Analyses
This evaluation represents the first independent evaluation of the PSIA experience. It assesses the effect PSIAs have had on country policies and on B...
Digital Dividends
"This Report aims to inspire and guide the researchers and practitioners who can help advance a new set of development approaches based on a fuller co...
The COVID-19 pandemic has, with alarming speed, dealt a heavy blow to an already-weak global economy, which is expected to slide into its deepest rece...
This report describes the current situation with regard to universal health coverage and global quality of care, and outlines the steps governments, h...
Going Beyond Efficiency
Twelfth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2015 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of e...
Although the global economy is emerging from the collapse triggered by COVID-19, the recovery is likely to be subdued, and global GDP is projected to ...
Evaluation of the World Bank Group Program
Over 2004-11, the World Bank Group program in Brazil aimed to support to government in achieving greater equity, sustainability, and competitiveness. ...
Slow Growth, Policy Challenges
Global growth is projected to be slightly faster in 2020 than the post-crisis low registered last year. While growth could be stronger if reduced trad...
An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance to the Transport Sector, 1995-2005
The World Bank committed $30.6 billion in transport-related projects during the past decade, making it one of the largest sectors. The evaluation look...
This report is the sixth in an annual series assessing development issues. It reviews recent trends in the international economy and their implication...
This key book analyses and describes the current trading and business situation in China through many case studies and data. It serves as an invaluabl...
Learning to Realize Education's Promise
Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to...
This study takes stock of the current water resources management in Armenia, including diagnosing the main sub-sectors (agriculture, urban, environmen...
The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law examines laws and regulations affecting women’s prospects as entrepreneurs and employees across...
Global growth has eased but remains robust and is projected to reach 3.1 percent in 2018. It is expected to edge down in the next two years, to 2.9 pe...
Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, f...