Middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face several evolving development challenges, including poverty, inequality, unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation and climate change, low productivity and lack of competitiveness, macroeconomic instability, and insufficient economic…
The Comprehensive Evaluation of the Development Results (CEDR) of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB, or Bank) aims to provide an independent, credible and evidence-based assessment of development results achieved by the Bank between 2004 and 2013.
This evaluation assesses ADB's support for Sri Lanka over 2006–2015, to inform the preparation and design of a new country partnership strategy that will guide ADB's Sri Lanka operations from 2017 to 2021.
This document informs IDEV stakeholders about its work in 2015. Overall, 12 influential evaluations were delivered: 5 country strategy and program evaluations, 3 thematic evaluations, 3 corporate evaluations and a project cluster evaluation. This represents the highest number in IDEV's 30…
The Yichang-Wanzhou Railway was the first railway to be developed in the low-income region of Hubei Province, and it constituted an important 377 km component in the central People's Republic of China (PRC) railway corridor, linking Yichang in Hubei Province and Wanzhou in Chongqing…
These guidelines focus on the four core and three non-core assessments to be undertaken for projects by both self- and independent evaluations within the Asian Development Bank.