The Independent Evaluation Group s (IEG) Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (RAP) is a comprehensive...... more

The World Bank Group is currently engaged in reflection and debate on how to improve the delivery of development...... more

countries, contributing about 15-20 percent of total infrastructure investment. The World Bank Group has expanded its support to...... more

, operating, and closing a business. The World Bank Group has provided extensive support to investment climate reforms. This...... more

"The World Bank Group was a principal founding partner of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in its pilot phase in...... more

"The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies...... more

"The World Bank Group promotes small and medium enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and targeted...... more

100-200 million people and the undernourished increased by 63 million in 2008. The World Bank organized rapidly for short-term...... more

"Fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS) have become an important focus of World Bank Group assistance in recent...... more

decade across the World Bank Group. IEG found that this investment is substantial, but its effectiveness can be enhanced...... more

100-200 million people and the undernourished increased by 63 million in 2008. The World Bank organized rapidly for short-term...... more

statistical methods and the demand for evaluations that can measure such development results are increasing. The World Bank Group...... more

Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation of the World Bank Group’s support to countries trying to address youth employment issues....... more

World Bank Group is one of the world s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. Its mission is to...... more

This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009 is part of IEG s country program evaluation...... more

The evaluation finds that the content of the World Bank s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) is largely...... more

the World Bank s lending and grant support for water activities. More than 30 background papers prepared for the...... more

into an atmosphere already polluted with two centuries of Western emissions. The World Bank, with a newly-articulated...... more

generation, more than half of the developing world’s population and between a third and one-half of its poor, will then reside in...... more

Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people--2.3 percent of the world’s population--live outside of...... more

The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the...... more

visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable...... more

Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality...... more

monitor progress toward the World Bank Group s two goals of ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity. Six themes are...... more

compare the size and price levels of economies around the world. The program involved 199 economies from eight geographic...... more

"Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy: The Framework, Methodology, and Results of the International Comparison...... more

"’Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging with the World’ describes why...... more

traditional banking institutions to include insurance companies, mutual funds, market makers and other financial service providers...... more

and reflecting the perspectives of various stakeholders and the World Bank’s operational experiences. This report, the...... more

examples from real-life World Bank projects so that policy makers, tax officials, information technology experts, and...... more

TRaditionally, mini grids have been viewed as "off-grid+? systems that are built and operated solely... more

Steadily increasing demand for water poses a threat to sustainable development, and an increasing nu... more

A structural growth slowdown is under way across the world: at current trends, the global rate of potential growth is...... more

the results of a survey conducted by the World Bank of greening practices within NDFIs based in countries in a range of...... more

Climate change is unfolding amid the greatest information and communication revolution in human hist... more

Sri Lanka has confronted and is grappling with a number of exogenous shocks, including the devastati... more

from the World Bank’s Global Businesses of the State database to highlight the distinction between businesses of the state...... more

Braced for Impact: Reforming Kazakhstan’s National Financial Holding for Development Effectiveness a... more

To address the myriad challenges posed by global climate change, countries at all income levels have... more

Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One of these, pensions provided by the Social... more

In recent decades, the Sri Lankan government has introduced reforms aimed at enhancing education acc... more

widespread bank turmoil and tighter monetary policy could result in even weaker global growth. Rising borrowing costs in advanced...... more

South Asia is home to 9 of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution. Concentrations of fine particulate...... more

Facing a challenging transition process, Libya stands to profit from a reconstruction strategy and a... more

Brazil’s nine Amazonian states, here collectively referred to as Amazônia, include some of the world’s richest...... more

All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of peo... more

The great expansion of economic activity since the end of World War II has caused an unprecedented rise in living...... more

Women, Business and the Law 2023 is the ninth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and r... more

throughout the world-regardless of economic status-identified the need for robust digital health care solutions as an important...... more

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic underscored the need for many countries to develop more effectiv... more

Developing countries face massive infrastructure needs, but public spending on infrastructure is ina... more

EMDEs, and to support a major increase in EMDE investment. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report...... more

In 2022, South Sudan was ranked as the world’s most vulnerable country to climate change and the one most lacking in...... more

the most polluted country in the world between 2018 and 2021; its capital, Dhaka, was ranked as the second-most polluted...... more

International Debt Report (IDR) is a longstanding annual publication of the World Bank featuring external debt...... more

This report examines the causes of low productivity growth in Kazakhstan by combining an analysis of... more

New analysis in the report Where is the Value in the Chain? Pathways out of Plastic Pollution provid... more

Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring progress towa... more

versatile and helps young people to adapt and thrive in the twenty-first century world of work....... more

. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects...... more