Event Details 1 of Independent Evaluation Group, The World Bank Group

This session will present the use of geospatial data to analyze the impact of the World Bank Group’s interventions. The session comprises two parts. In the first part, geospatial targeting of World Bank Group support is discussed from a macro perspective. During the second part of the session recent work on geospatial data, both on the independent variable side (georeferencing World Bank Group interventions), as well as on the dependent variable side (e.g. recent advances in subnational poverty mapping) will be discussed.