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An Operational Approach to Enhancing Women's and Girls' Empowerment in World Bank Projects

World Bank Group - 2023

Gender equality has long been central to the World Bank's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. More recently, women's and girls' empowerment (WGE) has become a priority in the Africa region in the context of the region's demographic...

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Evaluation Insight Note : Elements that Enhance Institutional Capacity Development in World Bank Projects and Country Partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank Group - 2023

Evaluation Insight Notes (EIN) offer new insights from existing evidence on important strategic and operational issues …. This EIN draws on Independent Evaluation Group evidence to identify lessons for addressing institutional capacity …, corruption, and civil conflict. To help navigate institutional capacity development, this Evaluation Insight Note (EIN) answers …

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A Focused Assessment of the International Development Association's Private Sector Window : An Update to the Independent Evaluation Group's 2021 Early-Stage Assessment

World Bank Group - 2024

countries. This evaluation aims to assess the usage, market development potential, and enabling factors of the PSW. The … evaluation assesses how the usage of the PSW has changed from its inception in 2017 to 2023 and explores its potential market … of finance. It comprises financial and nonfinancial additionality. This evaluation assesses the PSW across three IDA …

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Retention and Expansion of Foreign Direct Investment : Political Risk and Policy Responses

World Bank Group - 2019

Due to its recognized benefits, most countries today regardless of their level of development compete for and dedicate significant resources to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Capturing the full positive spillovers of FDI is a long-term process and requires regulatory certainty and...

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Investment Policy and Promotion Diagnostics and Tools : Maximizing the Potential Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment for Competitiveness and Development

World Bank Group - 2017

This paper presents a bird's eye overview of the investment policy and promotion (IPP) logical framework developed by the trade and competitiveness global practice of the WBG to address the challenge of how countries can use foreign direct investment (FDI) to advance their economic development....

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Can Interventions Spur Development of the Insurance Sector? : From Examples of World Bank Projects

World Bank Group - 2020

Section one of the paper provides a broad overview of the nature and objectives of the projects. Section two contains an objective view of the impact of FIRST funded projects on the growth in insurance markets as measured by insurance market penetration. Rigorous data analysis was used to...

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