Policy-based lending (PBL) provides developing member countries with fast-disbursing budget support while, at the same time, creating an opportunity for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to influence policy reforms to boost growth and poverty reduction.
This evaluation of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) support for gender and development (GAD) examined the relevance and results of ADB's gender priorities at the corporate, country, and project levels during 2005–2015.
ADB's Independent Evaluation Department will host Caught in a Trap? Asia and the Pacific's Middle-Income Countries at a Crossroads - a learning event on 21 June 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Full details are available in the ECG calendar or on the ADB website.
IEG has just published a synthesis of existing evaluations which seeks to draw lessons from key IEG evaluations of World Bank Group support for strengthening client country response and resilience to systemic shocks. The synthesis seeks to draw lessons from key IEG evaluations of World Bank Group support for strengthening client country response and resilience to systemic shocks.
