In the 70 years since the IMF’s founding, the global economy and the IMF’s role have evolved markedly. So too has the IMF’s need for data, but what has not changed is the fundamental role that data play in sup- porting the IMF in its efforts to foster global economic and financial stability.…
The Committee on Development Effectiveness of the World Bank Group commissioned an independent panel to conduct an external review of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).
This report is IEO’s first assessment of self-evaluation at the IMF. It examines the outputs and activities conducted at the IMF in order to learn from experience and improve the quality of its work. The report is intended to help strengthen the IMF self-evaluation function and in this way…
This report is the second in a program of evaluations that the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is conducting on the learning that takes place through World Bank projects. Learning and knowledge are treated as parts of a whole and are presumed to be mutually reinforcing.
As part of IEG's commitment to promoting learning from evaluation experience, IEG is supplementing its main evaluation reports with a series of learning-focused notes which aim to make evaluation evidence easily accessible to key audiences. This note brings together in short and…