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Can the World Bank Shed More Light on the Outcomes of Its Support for Financial Inclusion?
Better data on who is using and benefitting from financial services could improve understanding of which financial inclusion interventions deliver the greatest benefit to the poor.
🎧 Additionality in the private sector and the experience of the International Finance Corporation
Additionality is the unique value that Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) offer to private companies in low- and middle-income countries without crowding out private investments. For DFIs, such as the International…
Evaluating Budget Support
With increasing amounts of development finance delivered as budget support, and the prominent role this form of fast disbursing, non-earmarked support played during the global pandemic, this two-part series explores the…
Lessons for building on the World Bank’s unprecedented health and social response to COVID-19
By the time COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the World Bank Group had already committed up to $160 billion in financing in response to the outbreak and had aligned its support with the World Health…
Ecuador Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper)
The Country Program Evaluation (CPE) for Ecuador seeks to assess the performance of the World Bank Group in helping Ecuador address its main development challenges. The objective of this CPE is to assess how the Bank…
Evaluation of World Bank Support for Public Sector Transparency and Accountability: Anticorruption, Justice, and External Audit Functions (Approach Paper)
Supporting client countries in building an open and accountable public sector that serves the needs of all citizens is core to economic development. Within any public sector, there are specific institutions or entities…
The Promise and Perils of Global Indicators: Doing Business and the Reform of the Business Enabling Environment
Global indicators can be very helpful, but they also require some caution in their use. Global indicators draw our attention to problems and provide metrics to compare across economies and over time.
What next for additionality: promoting better understanding of its role in development
According to the ‘additionality’ principle, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) such as the World Bank Group’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), should make a contribution beyond what is…
Universal Digital Inclusion and Usage (Approach Paper)
Available, affordable, and accessible digital connectivity can help deliver essential services, such as education and health care, and lead to an increase in economic growth. High levels of digital inclusion also offer…
MIGA’s Experience with Non-Honoring of Sovereign, Sub-Sovereign, and State-Owned Enterprise Financial Obligation Guarantees
This meso evaluation provides the first assessment of MIGA’s 10-year experience with its Non-Honoring of Sovereign, Sub-sovereign and State-Owned Enterprises Financial Obligation insurance products and the extent to…