World Bank: 627 books
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
World Development Indicators 2016 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens find and use data related...
World Development Report 2018
Learning to Realize Education's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is right: education has long been critical to human welfare,...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2015
The Global Economy in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Global growth is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2015, but is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in 2016-17. Growth in developing countries and some high-income countries is set to disappoint again this year. The prospect of rising borrowing costs will compound the challenges many developing countries...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
World Development Indicators 2015 World Development Indicators 2015 provides a compilation of relevant, highquality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers,...
The Global Findex Database 2017
Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global...
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018
Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
The World Bank Group has two overarching goals: End extreme poverty by 2030 and promote shared prosperity by boosting the incomes of the bottom 40 percent of the population in each economy. As this year’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity report documents, the world continues to make progress toward...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
With some six billion mobile subscriptions now in use worldwide, around three-quarters of the world's inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone. Mobiles are arguably the most ubiquitous modern technology – in some developing countries, more people have access to a mobile phone than to clean water,...
Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011
Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011: Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World (ABCDE) presents papers from a global gathering of the worlds leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 - June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the...
by Herbst, Christopher; Vledder, Monique; Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
'The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank?s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.Despite reporting some health gains since the 1990s health outcomes remain...
Risks and Returns
Managing Financial Trade-Offs for Inclusive Growth in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
During the 1990s, Emerging Europe and Central Asia (ECA) opted for a model of rapid financial development focused on bank credit expansion often funded by foreign capital. This model helped boost the financial inclusion of firms and households, but was also accompanied by lower financial efficiency...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews...
by Pleskovic Boris ; Lin Justin Yifu
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
This book presents selected papers from the ABCDE Meetings, held May 17 -18, 2007 in Bled, Slovenia. Hosted by the World Bank and Government if Slovenia, more than 400 experts from countries around the world met to deliberate the theme: Private Sector and Development. This volume presents papers on financial...
Vietnam 2035
Toward Prosperity, Creativity, Equity, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Thirty years of Ä?ổi Má»›i (economic renovation) reforms have catapulted Vietnam from the ranks of the world’s poorest countries to one of its great development success stories. Critical ingredients have been visionary leaders, a sense of shared societal purpose, and a focus on the future....
Global Economic Prospects, January 2017
Weak Investment in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Stagnant global trade, subdued investment, and heightened policy uncertainty marked another difficult year for the world economy. A subdued recovery is expected for 2017, with receding obstacles to activity in commodity exporters and solid domestic demand in commodity importers. Weak investment is weighing...