Spring Meetings 2026 | Measurement Is Direction: Putting Targets on the Map

This final livestream session in the 2026 Spring Meetings series brought the week’s discussions on targets, results, and impact into focus. It stepped back from individual sessions to address a central question: what are development targets for? The answer is tangible impact—more and better jobs, higher incomes, and expanded economic opportunity. Drawing on real‑world examples from government and the private sector, the session showed how clear, measurable goals help translate policy into results, and ambition into outcomes people can see and measure. The discussion highlighted how the World Bank Group Scorecard is shifting the institution from tracking activities to delivering outcomes, with jobs as a central priority. It also introduced the Target Map—a public tool designed to make progress more transparent, comparable, and accountable across countries and sectors. Watch this session to explore how targets, data, and policy come together to support jobs, productivity, and economic growth at scale. https://live.worldbank.org/en/event/2026/spring-meetings-outcomes?cid=ECR_E_NewsletterWeekly_EN_EXT&deliveryName=DM279560