IEG has just published a synthesis of existing evaluations which seeks to draw lessons from key IEG evaluations of World Bank Group support for strengthening client country response and resilience to systemic shocks. The synthesis seeks to draw lessons from key IEG evaluations of World Bank Group support for strengthening client country response and resilience to systemic shocks. The synthesis is concerned exclusively with systemic shocks—that is, shocks that affect highly significant numbers of economic agents in at least one country, possibly several—and the impact of which unfolds during a relatively short time.