IEG thematic evaluations and learning products (and the World Bank’s DPF retrospective) provide rich insights into various dimensions of DPF performance, especially with respect to results frameworks, policy-based guarantees, use of DPF as an anti-crisis instrument, macroeconomic frameworks, and the performance of DPF in low-income IDA countries. The findings included the following: 

  • 13World Bank. 2015. Quality of Results Frameworks in Development Policy Operations. Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • 14World Bank. 2016. Findings from Evaluations of Policy-Based Guarantees. Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • 15World Bank. 2017. Crisis Response and Resilience to Systemic Shocks: Lessons from IEG Evaluations. Washington DC: World Bank. See also IEG (Independent Evaluation Group). 2010. The World Bank Group’s Response to the Global Economic Crises, Phase I. Washington, DC: World Bank; and IEG. 2012. The World Bank Group’s Response to the Global Economic Crisis, Phase II. Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • 16World Bank. 2015. How Does Knowledge Integrate with the Design of Development Policy Operations? Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • 17World Bank. 2016. Lessons from Environmental Policy Lending. Washington, DC: World Bank. pp. x-xi.
  • 18World Bank. 2018. Maximizing the Impact of Development Policy Financing in IDA Countries: A Stocktaking of Success Factors and Risks. IEG meso-evaluation. Washington, DC: World Bank. p. 7.
  • 19World Bank. 2015. Quality of Macroeconomic Frameworks in Development Policy Operations. Washington, DC: World Bank.