Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform our lives. Like the internet, it’s a general-purpose technology that spans sectors, is widely accessible, has a low marginal cost of adding ...

Over the past year, development impact bonds, or DIBs—international development’s newest hot trend—have generated a tremendous amount of buzz from champions and detractors alike, along with some ...

A couple of seminal studies published almost 20 years ago found that conservationists needed to start examining whether their actions were actually causing the desired effects. Assessing conservation ...

Assuming that a criminal justice program is evaluable and animpact evaluation is feasible, an appropriate research design must be developed. The basic idea of an impact evaluation is simple. Program ...

The Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab (or ComPEL) is an umbrella program under the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank Group (WBG). It supports the use of ...

Insufficient political progress in addressing the causes and consequences of climate change has driven many individuals, communities and civil society organisations to litigate in pursuit of climate ...