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Finding the signal in the score: How the World Bank Group is aligning the Scorecard and impact evaluations

For years, the World Bank Group’s systems for measuring results operated in parallel tracks: corporate Scorecards that monitored performance through outcome-level targets, and impact evaluations that investigated what works, for whom, and why. Both were powerful in their own right—but too often disconnected. That is beginning to change. In today’s context of tighter budgets, more […]

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Female representation and talent allocation in entrepreneurship

Women are significantly underrepresented in entrepreneurship in all OECD countries, with implications not only for gender equality but also for aggregate productivity. This column uses Danish data covering nearly 800,000 individuals to demonstrate that early exposure to entrepreneurship increases the likelihood that women become entrepreneurs later in life. Moreover, the women who follow entrepreneurial pursuits […]