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Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality : A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluation Evidence
Independent Evaluation Group - 2016
Improved outcomes for women and children - more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes - have broad individual, family, and societal benefits. For nearly 15 years, the targets of the millennium development goals (MDGs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497623
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What Can We Learn from Nutrition Impact Evaluations? Lessons from a Review of Interventions to Reduce Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
impact of the World Bank-supported programs on nutrition outcomes. Specifically, the review addresses the following four … of Bank-supported programs with anthropometric impacts? Although many different dimensions of child nutrition could be … nutrition outcome indicators in the literature and the ones most frequently monitored by national nutrition programs supported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561138
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Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition, and Population : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support since 1997
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
Corporation (IFC) health, nutrition, and population (HNP) strategies to enhance the effectiveness of future support. It covers the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561206
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Development Results in Middle-Income Countries : An Evaluation of the World Bank's Support
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
This IEG evaluation brings a fresh perspective to the debate by assessing the development effectiveness of the Bank's recent work. It presents evidence -- including views from the client countries themselves -- about the outcomes of the Bank's support to individual countries over the past 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563153
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World Bank Assistance to Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : An IEG Review
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
This study assesses the development effectiveness of World Bank assistance in addressing constraints to agricultural development in Africa over the period of fiscal years 1991-2006. This Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) review of World Bank assistance to agriculture in Africa has a twofold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563180
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Pension Reform and the Development of Pension Systems : An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
This report analyzes the Bank's assistance to support pension reform to determine if the Bank's strategy was relevant and if it was followed. The evaluation assesses whether pension reform decisions reflected best practice guidelines at entry, and whether Bank-assisted reforms achieved their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563217
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IEG Review of World Bank Assistance for Financial Sector Reform
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
This evaluation presents an independent assessment of the Bank's support for financial sector reforms over the period FY93-03. It is the second part of a two-part evaluation; the first part of the assessment covered lines of credit. This volume focuses on Bank lending for financial sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563230
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Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development : An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group examined the World Bank's experience in disaster prevention and response over the past 20 years and found that the scale of Bank operations has grown over the period. The report found that the Bank has demonstrated considerable flexibility in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563255
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World Bank Assistance to the Financial Sector : A Synthesis of IEG Evaluation
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
This report is a synthesis of three evaluations carried out by the Independent Evaluation Group and completed between July 2005 and February 2006, on different aspects of Bank assistance to financial sector development in client countries. The three evaluation reports are World Bank Lending for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563256
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Debt Relief for the Poorest : An Evaluation Update of the HIPC Initiative
Independent Evaluation Group - 2012
This study evaluates progress under the HIPC initiative since the 2003 evaluation of the Independent Evaluation Group. It finds that the Enhanced HIPC initiative (the Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) cut debt ratios in half for 18 countries, but in eight of these countries, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563259