World Bank Group: 20 books
by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
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 second edition is a follow-up to the first volume released for the 2014 Annual Meetings. The World Bank Group A to Z series...
by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
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 arranged in encyclopedic A-to-Z format, readers can easily find up-to-date information about the five...
Global Financial Development Report 2014
Financial Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2017
A Fragile Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Global activity is firming broadly as expected. Manufacturing and trade are picking up, confidence is improving, international financing conditions remain benign, and commodity prices are stabilizing. Growth in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) is set to recover, as obstacles to growth...
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 2018
Broad-Based Upturn, but for How Long?
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The global economy is in a broad-based cyclical recovery. Investment, manufacturing and trade are on the rebound. Financing conditions are benign, monetary policies are generally accommodative, and the worst impacts of the recent commodity price collapse have begun to dissipate. However, the global...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2016
Divergences and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Global growth prospects have deteriorated in 2016. Emerging market and developing economies are facing increased external headwinds, including softer growth in advanced economies. Commodity exporters are struggling with particularly challenging conditions, while commodity importers are thus far showing...
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...
Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2017/2018
Foreign Investor Perspectives and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
The Global Investment Competitiveness report presents new insights and evidence on drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries, and FDI’s role in development. The report’s survey of 750 executives of multinational corporations finds that a business-friendly legal and regulatory...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2018
The Turning of the Tide?
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Global growth has eased but remains robust and is projected to reach 3.1 percent in 2018. It is expected to edge down in the next two years, to 2.9 percent by 2020, as global slack dissipates, trade and investment moderate, and financing conditions tighten. Growth in advanced economies is predicted...
Benchmarking Public Procurement 2016
Assessing Public Procurement Systems in 77 Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Public procurement accounts for around one-fifth of global gross domestic product (GDP). Given its size the public procurement market can improve public sector performance, promote national competitiveness, drive domestic economic growth, and boost economic development. Launched at the request of the...
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016
Comparing Regulatory Good Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016 provides a tool for policy makers to identify and analyze legal barriers for the business of agriculture and to quantify transaction costs of dealing with government regulations. Building on an earlier progress report published in November 2014, this volume presents...
by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2017, the third report in the series, offers insights into how laws and regulations affect private sector development for agribusinesses, including producer organizations and other agricultural entrepreneurs. Globally comparable data and scored indicators encourage...
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,...
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