Documents et rapports

Tax revenue mobilization : lessons from World Bank Group support for tax reform (anglais)

The mobilization of domestic resources through reforms in taxation is essential to ensuring sustainable financing of development. The World Bank Group is engaged in several international initiatives that...

World Bank Group joint projects : a review of two decades of experience - lessons and implications from evaluation (anglais)

Working as One World Bank Group is central to the WBG’s strategy of helping countries end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity sustainably. Over the past 20 years (1995 to 2015), many initiatives...

Women's empowerment in rural community-driven development projects (anglais)

Community-driven development (CDD) interventions rest on the principle of empowering communities. Yet, the gender-specific impacts of CDD, especially on empowerment, have not received due attention in...

Findings from evaluations of policy-based guarantees : learning product (anglais)

This paper is a survey of practices and results that have been observed in the implementation of PBGs, drawing largely upon four in-depth Project Performance Assessment Reports undertaken by IEG, in Serbia...

Reliable and affordable off-grid electricity services for the poor : lessons from the World Bank Group experience (anglais)

This learning product draws upon existing IEG evaluations, project documents and analytical work relating to the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) experience with supporting efforts towards the rapid scale up...

Public-private partnerships in health : World Bank Group engagement in health PPP : an IEG synthesis report : Public-Private Partnerships in Health : World Bank Group Engagement in Health PPP : An IEG Synthesis Report (anglais)

Financial viability of the electricity sector in developing countries : recent trends and effectiveness of World Bank interventions (anglais)

This Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) Learning Product addresses the effectiveness of World Bank interventions during fiscal years (FY) 2000–2015 in supporting client countries for improving the financial...

Lessons from environmental policy lending : IEG learning product (anglais)

The World Bank offers three main categories of financing: investment project financing directly finances specific investments; Program for results financing uses country systems and disburses based on...

The role of political economy analysis in development policy operations (anglais)

This learning product reviews the extent to which political economy analysis (PEA) is used to improve the design of development policy operations (DPOs) and how effective it has been. Although the World...

World Bank Group support for housing finance : an IEG learning product (anglais)

Access to adequate housing is critically important to the health and wellbeing of the world’s population. Yet, despite the fact that this statement is part of the United Nations Universal Declaration of...

Supporting transformational change for poverty reduction and shared prosperity : lessons from World Bank Group experience - an IEG category two learning product (anglais)

‘Transformational engagements’ are identified as those that “improve fundamentally the lives of the poor and disadvantaged people.” Such engagements may “produce demonstration effects that can be replicated...

Learning from IDA experience : lessons from IEG evaluations (anglais)

At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, world leaders endorsed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Placing economic...

Managing environmental and social risks in development policy financing : IEG learning product (anglais)

Effective environmental and social risk management in development policy financing (DPF) is central to achieving the World Bank’s goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity in a sustainable...

The quality of results frameworks in development policy operations (anglais)

The objective of this review is to synthesize existing evaluative evidence and generate new evidence on the quality of the Results Frameworks (RFs) of development policy operations (DPOs). The study is...

Opportunities and challenges from working in partnership : findings from IEG's work on partnership programs and trust funds (anglais)

Partnerships and trust funds are big business for the World Bank Group. It participates in around 126 global partnership programs and administers more than 1000 trust funds which have become a significant...

Past and future : bank-IFC cooperation at the country strategy level (anglais)

The needs of World Bank Group (WBG) clients have been changing with the private sector increasingly becoming the engine of growth, and the governments’ attention shifting from public projects to dealing...

Results frameworks in country strategies : lessons from evaluations (anglais)

In 2005, the World Bank Group (WBG) formally introduced the results framework in the country assistance strategy (CASs) as a key tool for improving the quality of the WBG's strategy in borrowing member...

Selectivity in country strategies : the evidence (anglais)

The World Bank Group (WBG) has adopted a new strategy which sets two ambitious goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. To operationalize the twin goals, the WBG is developing a...

Past and future : bank-IFC cooperation at the country strategy level (anglais)

The needs of World Bank Group (WBG) clients have been changing with the private sector increasingly becoming the engine of growth, and the governments’ attention shifting from public projects to dealing...

The big business of small enterprises : evaluation of the World Bank Group experience with targeted support to small and medium-size enterprises, 2006-12 (Vol. 2 of 2) : Vue d’ensemble (français)

The World Bank Group promotes small and medium enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and targeted interventions. Targeting means focusing benefits on one size-class of firms to the exclusion of...