For more than five decades the World Bank's premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, have…

Over the past three decades, only 31 middle-income countries have transitioned to high income. How can the 108 countries that are currently at the middle stage of development avoid the…

Financial-sector risks in EMDEs are greatest for lower-income countries. Most EMDE banks appear relatively sound and resilient, but pockets of weakness exist. Vulnerable countries should take urgent steps to remedy…

Presents latest progress on digitalization from both the supply and demand sides, with a focus on developing countries. The report also highlights the emergence of digital public infrastructure, benefits and…

This book analyzes the World Bank's lending policy in the Second United Nations Development Decade and concentrates on the Bank's shift in emphasis from traditional infrastructure projects to "new style"…

The majority of the world’s poor depend directly or indirectly on agriculture. Despite the strong linkages between broad-based agricultural growth and poverty reduction, international support to agriculture sharply declined from…

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…