The World Bank Group is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Its focus is on helping the poorest people in the poorest countries by using its
“A wonderful resource …”-- CHOICE MAGAZINE“An exceptional book …”-- GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS REVIEWThe World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developi
The World Bank Group is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Its focus is on helping the poorest people in the poorest countries by using its
The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group. This volume is a six month
The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group. With more than 280 entries
The department of the World Bank called the Independent Evaluation Group assesses the performance of its mother institution during 2010. The year was dominated by the response to the global financial
This report from The World Bank evaluates Phase I of the "win-win" energy policy reforms that combine strategies for energy pricing, energy efficiency and reconciliation of global and national goals f
This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009 is part of IEG’s country program evaluation series. To date, IEG’s in-depth country evaluations have comprised IEG-WB Country A
The East Asia and Pacific Economic Update is the comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region's economies prepared by the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank. In this edition titled, R
This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank’s 2001 gender strategy and the results thereof. Covering the period fiscal 2002-08, the evaluation finds that the Bank made progress in ge
This volume contains abstracts of World Bank research projects initiated, under way, or completed in fiscal years 2008 and 2009. The abstracts describe questions addressed, analytical methods used, fi
This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's support for environmental sustainability—in both the public and private sectors—over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to
This annual compendium contains abstracts from studies in the World Bank Research Program that were initiated, ongoing, or completed from 2005 to 2007. Studies were in the fields of agriculture and ru
This volume of The World Bank Legal Review, edited by Cisse (deputy general counsel, knowledge and research, World Bank), Muller (director, The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law, the
The World Bank Group has responded to the global economic crisis with a strong countercyclical expansion of financing. Its disbursements of $80 billion in the past two fiscal years were the largest am
This evaluation examines the relevance and effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs), introduced by the Bank in early 2001 to support comprehensive growth, improve social conditions,
IEG’s evaluation shows that the World Bank Group remained an important partner for the government in addressing many key policy challenges. The World Bank adapted its program effectively to meet shif
This annual report from the World Bank examines the South Asia region's economies and its recovery from the global economic crisis. The report finds that South Asia's strong rebound since March 2009 i
The World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update 2010, Volume I, is the World Bank's comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region's economies. In this edition. the Bank finds that, largely th
'Healthy Development: The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition, & Population Results' updates the Bank's contribution to improving health outcomes, including the 2015 Millennium Development G
'Healthy Development: The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population Results' updates the Bank's contribution to improving health outcomes, including the 2015 Millennium Development Goa
'Infrastructure at the Crossroads' brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the
The World Bank Group was a principal founding partner of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in its pilot phase in 1991, and of the restructured GEF in 1994. The Bank plays three different roles in
The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the organization to changing circumstances and address concerns among external stakeholders about the role of aid in
'Decentralization in Client Countries' assesses the effectiveness of Bank support for decentralization between fiscal years 1990 and 2007 in 20 countries, seeking to inform the design and implementati
The World Bank has commissioned this report on global regulatory institutions, and how "Doing Business" (DB) indicators are used to measure the role these institutions have in stimulating business gro
Fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS) have become an important focus of World Bank Group assistance in recent years as recognition of the linkages between fragility, conflict, violence, and pover
Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations assess changes that can be attributed to a particula
The report assesses the World Bank Group’s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand fo
Foreign direct investment and private capital flows are highly concentrated geographically, with almost half of them reaching five top destinations. These flows tend to evade many high-risk countries.
Development patterns, increasing population pressure, and the demand for better livelihoods in many parts of the globe all contribute to a steadily deepening global water crisis. Development redirects
Much of the content in this third volume of The World Bank Legal Review came from contributing speakers at the November 2010 World Bank-coordinated Law, Justice and Development Week. Topics in this co
World Bank Group support to West Bank and Gaza covered four broad areas: governance, private sector development, infrastructure, and human and social development. The tension between the long-term dev
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support for health, nutrition, and population (HNP) in developing countries from 1997 to 2008 – totaling more than $17 billion – and di
Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority—it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor in the region has doubled, to 300 million—more tha
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a bank holiday on March 5, 1933, closing banks across the country until they proved financial soundness. Meanwhile, as the United States crawled out of the Great D
This study from the Independent Evaluation Group draws lessons for development and climate change mitigation from the World Bank Group’s far-reaching portfolio of projects in energy, forestry, transpo
The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports. Sound financial management, an efficient civil
The story of independent evaluation in the World Bank is more than 30 years in the making. However, it is a story that has never been fully told. The Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the Worl
