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Is this really the best the World Bank/IFC can do in touting its impact?

The past week has seen the World Bank building covered in banners and messages promoting the release of the 2012 World Development Report and the annual meetings. One of my colleagues drew my attention to this claim of impact on the sidewalk outside the Bank:

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Evaluating the World Bank’s ICT activities: What IEG got right and wrong and what can be done in the future

The World Bank Group provided $4.2 billion in support to the ICT (information and communications technology) sector over 2003-2010, including 410 non-lending activities for ICT sector reform and capacity building in 91 countries. The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) had the unenviable task of trying to answer whether all this activity has been relevant and effective.

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