This note summarizes available evidence on barriers to energy efficiency and the interventions to surmount them from evaluations of the World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Global Environment Facility.
This ECG meta-evaluation reviews MDB evaluation findings and related recent research work on microfinance. It finds that successful microfinance operations require (i) financial sustainability on the part of the participating microfinance institutions, (ii) high-standard consultancy and…