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      Global Economic Prospects, January 2025

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      Digital Progress and Trends Report 2023

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      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…

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      La evolucion geografica de la productividad y el empleo

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      Employs a territorial lens to understand the persistently low economic growth rates in Latin America and the Caribbean. Using new data sources and methods, the report argues that deindustrialization, distance…

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      The World Bank Group and the Global Food Crisis: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group Response

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      The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. The food price increases were particularly hard on the poor and near-poor in developing countries. This…

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      Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2012

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      The World Bank Group has made important contributions to poverty reduction in developing countries. But to stay relevant under the uncertain conditions that characterise today’s global development context, the Bank…

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      The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

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      Provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group.

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      Digital Senegal for Inclusive Growth: Technological Transformation for Better and More Jobs

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      Adoption of better technologies can generate better and more jobs for Senegal’s growing population. The book recommends policies to ensure availability of affordable digital infrastructure and to promote use of…

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      The Global Health Cost of PM2.5 Air Pollution: A Case for Action Beyond 2021

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      This publication estimates that the global cost of health damages associated with exposure to air pollution is $8.1 trillion, equivalent to 6.1 percent of global GDP. It further develops the…

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      World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development

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      The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s annual flagship publication. Each year the WDR seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes, and sets out actions…

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      Accelerating Health Reforms through Collective Action: Experiences from East Africa

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      This publication briefly describes the processes and methodologies for building and sustaining multistakeholder coalition to drive reforms in the health sector. It is based on the experiences of three East…

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      Women, Business and the Law 2022

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      The eighth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies.

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      Hidden Potential: Rethinking Informality in South Asia

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      This report promotes a more inclusive development and COVID recovery by better understanding how policies can increase productivity and reduce vulnerability in the informal sector.

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      Global Economic Prospects, June 2022

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      Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report. Published semiannually, the report includes analysis of topical policy challenges faced by developing countries through in-depth research in the January…

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      World Bank Group Impact Evaluations: Relevance and Effectiveness

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      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…

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      World Bank Group Support for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Independent Evaluation

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      In economic growth the largest differences between developed and developing economies are in innovation performances. Innovation is critical for growth, but it is increasingly important for addressing major development changes…

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      The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and…

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      Peru: Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009

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      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 Assistance…

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      Knowledge-Based Country Programs: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group Experience

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      The World Bank Group is currently engaged in reflection and debate on how to improve the delivery of development support. Part of this debate concerns strengthening the knowledge agenda. The…

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      Liberia Country Program Evaluation 2004-2011: Evaluation of the World Bank Group Program

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      This report evaluates the outcomes of World Bank Group support to Liberia from its post-war reengagement in 2003 through 2011. The country has moved from total disarray to a solid…

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      The World Bank Group’s partnership with the Global Environment Facility: Vol. 1: Main report

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      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…

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      Financing Higher Education in Africa

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      The rapid growth in the number of students accessing higher education and the decline in public expenditure per student is having an adverse impact on the quality and relevance of…

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      Reality Check

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      Identifies current policy trends that are helping countries decarbonize their economies whilst achieving their overall development objectives and their strategic ambition to transition to greener, more resilient, and inclusive development…

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      The Business of the State

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      Governments actively participate in commercial markets in different forms, from controlling the production of goods and services to investing in firms as a minority shareholder. This report uses new evidence…

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      Reaching out to the Child: An Integrated Approach to Child Development

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      This report focuses on Indian children and their physical, social, emotional, intellectual and educational development.

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      Results and performance of the World Bank Group 2015

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      Describes how mechanisms for integrating gender in projects and country strategies are working and to what extent they provide meaningful information about progress and results on gender. It aims to…

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      Private Interests, Public Office: Accountability through Income and Asset Disclosure

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      A companion volume to: Income and asset disclosure: case study illustrations.

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      The World Bank Group and public procurement: an independent evaluation

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      The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. International prices for food and other agricultural products increased by more than 100 percent between early…

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      URBAN POLICY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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      Rapid demographic growth will add 600 million people to cities and towns in developing countries during the 1990s, about two-thirds of the expected total population increase. Of the world’s 21…

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      Brazil country program evaluation, FY2004-11: evaluation of the World Bank Group Program

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      IEG’s evaluation shows that the World Bank Group remained an important partner for the Brazilian government in addressing many key policy challenges. The World Bank adapted its programme effectively to…

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      The IMF, the World Bank Group and the Question of Human Rights

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      Bahram Gahzi’s gets to the heart of the most important issue facing the global community today: namely, how to reconcile globalisation and the activities of the World Bank and the…

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      World Bank Group assistance to low-income fragile and conflict-affected states: an independent evaluation

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      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 poverty has…

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      Investment climate reforms: an independent evaluation of World Bank Group support to reforms of business regulations

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      The health of the private sector in developing countries depends on a well-functioning investment climate. The World Bank Group has provided extensive support to investment climate reforms. The Independent Evaluation…

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      The World Bank Glossary/Glosario Del Banco Mundial: English-Spanish, Spanish-English/Ingles-Espaanol, Espanol-Ingles

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      This glossary is intended to assist the World Bank’s translators and interpreters and others in the Bank and the development community who use Spanish in their work. It contains financial…

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      World Bank Group support to public-private partnerships: lessons from experience in client countries, FY02-12

      World Bank: Independent Evaluation Group

      Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have seen a rise in the last two decades and are used in more than 134 developing countries. IEG has reviewed the World Bank Group’s work with…

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      Climate Change and the World Bank Group: Phase I - An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms

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      Climate change threatens to derail development. The World Bank, with an articulated Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change, must confront these entangled threats in helping its clients to carve…

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      The World Bank Group Sanctions Process and its Recent Reforms

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      Presents a detailed account of the evolution of the World Bank’s sanctions process since its inception in 1996, with particular focus on the most recent round of reforms, and showing…

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      The World Bank Group, the IMF and Human Rights: A Contextualised Way Forward

      Willem Van Genugten

      The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund are under substantial pressure to accept more accountability under international human rights law. This publication sets out the standards by which…

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      World Bank Group Interactions with Environmentalists: Changing International Organisation Identities

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      Shows how environmentalists have shaped the world’s largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development. This book challenges a consensus over international organisational…

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      Health, Nutrition, and Population in Madagascar, 2000-09

      Maryanne Sharp,Ioana Kruse,World Bank Group

      This policy note provides an analysis of the evolution of key health indicators in Madagascar over the past few years, and proposes a series of recommendations to support improving access…

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      Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor

      The World Bank Group,Robert Warner,Jane Jamieson

      What needs to be done to enable the domestic private sector to expand its role in the provision of safe water and improved sanitation to the poor in developing countries…

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      The big business of small enterprises: evaluation of the Wold Bank Group experience with targeted support to small and medium size enterprises, 2006-12

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      A central challenge is to level the economic playing field by ensuring dynamic markets; strengthening market-support institutions; and removing constraints to participation. IEG found that financial sector development can have…

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      Trade Finance and the Compliance Challenge: A Showcase of International Cooperation

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      The availability of trade finance has become an increasingly important issue in the past few years. As international banks have become less willing to provide trade finance guarantees, particularly in…

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      World Bank Group: Important Steps Taken on Internal Control But Additional Assessments Should Be Made - Scholar’s Choice Edition

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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