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The World Bank Group works in more than 100 developing economies and is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. In 2002, the ins...
The World Bank's Experience
Policy dialogue on governance....
Presents case studies resulting from participation in the World Bank by developing countries such as Chad, Brazil, and Nigeria...
A Guide for Young People
A general introduction to the World Bank, this guide provides an overview of the Bank's history, organization, mission, and purpose....
The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the...
The Lonely Challenge
Autobiography of Hermann Buhl, whose solo, unaided climb of Nanga Parbat is thought to be a greater achievement than Hillary and Tenzing's climb on Ev...
The World Bank Group A to Z provides ready-reference insight into the history, mission, organization, policies, financial services, and knowledge prod...
An Evaluation of World Bank Group Assistance
This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group in helping its member countries improve their investment climates, within the conte...
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Annotation Argentina has reformed its public finance system and reversed years of economic decline and deficit spending. This study recommends policy ...
A World Bank Strategy
The critical importance of well-performing public institutions and good governance for development and poverty reduction has come to the forefront in ...
Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms
Overview of macroeconomic disaster in the making...
Policy Choices in a Volatile World
CD-ROM contains: Research and background information for the report....
The World Bank Group provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world, designed to aid countries in reducing pover...
An Evaluation of the World Bank Group Response
The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the ...
From Plan to Market
Almost one-third of the world's population has embarked on a transition from planned to market economies. Like economic reforms elsewhere, the long-te...
Strategic Directions for World Bank Engagement
This paper focuses on how to improve the development and management of water resources while providing the principles that link resource management to...
This is the 36th edition of this publication which gives an overview of key development indicators relating to social, economic and environmental data...
"Bangladesh is one of the poorest and most densely-populated countries in the world, yet it has achieved impressive progress since its independence in...
Building an Inclusive World Economy
Globalization - the growing integration of economies and societies around the world, is a complex process. The focus of this research is the impact of...
Governance, Performance, and Sustainability
"In a world moving very rapidly on both urbanization and globalization, cities in the developing world face both serious challenges and attractive opp...
Policies and Pitfalls in Expanding Access
Access to financial services varies sharply around the world. In many developing countries less than half the population has an account with a financi...
This is the ninth in an annual series assessing development issues. The world economy is entering its fourth year of growth since the recession of 198...
An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 1997-2007
Development patterns, increasing population pressure, and the demand for better livelihoods in many parts of the globe all contribute to a steadily de...
Causes, Costs, and Policies A Literature Survey
This survey assembles recent theoretical and empirical advances in the literature on economic informality and analyzes the causes and costs of informa...
Guidelines
Advanced Strategies for Development
In many parts of the world, knowledge is being put to work to accelerate and deepen the development process, promoting innovation and helping to gener...
Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life
TheWorld Development Report 2003addresses how to lift from poverty the three billion people now living in severe deprivation. It also explores how to ...
Knowledge for Development 1998/1999
Annotation World Development Report 1998-1999, now in its twenty-first edition, focuses on the role of knowledge and information as a factor of develo...
Prices, Markets, and Enterprise Reform
This study updates the findings of a 1994 study on how the concepts of women in development and gender have evolved within the World Bank, and how Ban...
Understanding Successful Socioeconomic Development
Annotation The Latin American Development Forum promotes debate and disseminates knowledge and analysis on economic and social development issues in L...
This publication sets out a framework for analysing the performance of governments in developing countries, looking at the government as a whole and a...
Highlights from a World Bank Conference
Examines whether Africa's disappointing economic performance reflects a failure to undertake structural adjustment reforms or a failure of those refor...
The MDGs after the Crisis
Global Monitoring Report 2010: The MDGs after the Crisis, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human d...
Conflict, Security, and Development
The 2011 WDR on Conflict, Security and Development underlines the devastating impact of persistent conflict on a country or region's development prosp...
Equity and Development
The World Development Report 2006: Equity and Opportunitypresents a social development strategy organized around the themes of social inclusion, cohes...
From Yugoslavia to the European Union
Thirteen years after independence from the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovenia has become one of the most advanced transition economies ...
Public Banks
The South Asia Economic Focus is a biannual economic update presenting recent economic developments and a near term economic outlook for South Asia. I...