• Rates of return

Rates of return to education

OED rates the development impact and performance of all the Bank's completed lending operations. The evaluations cover individual operations, country assistance strategies, policies and processes.

Information on the World Bank WWW/gopher (see separate entry) includes:

OED Documents available via the Public Information Center (PIC: see separate entry) include:

(a) Evaluation studies: at country or sector level (summaries available online)

(b) Impact evaluations: evaluation of projects five to eight years after end of funding (executive summary available online)

(c) Annual Review of Evaluation Results: executive summary available online

(d) OED Precis: full text summaries of key finding and recommendations

(e) Lessons and Practices: full text of recommendations and best practice guidelines for development practitioners