World Bank Publications imprint: 136 books
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 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...
Doing Business 2016
Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Doing Business 2016 is the 13th publication in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies. This year the publication addresses regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity including: •Starting a business •Dealing with construction permits •Getting...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The State of Social Safety Nets 2018 Report examines global trends in the social safety net/social assistance coverage, spending, and program performance based on the World Bank Atlas of Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) updated database. The report documents the main...
Pathways for Peace
Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor...
Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015
Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This year's report details, for the first time,...
The World Bank Legal Review Volume 6 Improving Delivery in Development
The Role of Voice, Social Contract, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Many developing countries have the capacity to develop broad development policy directions and formulate development programs that are logical and consistent, but these do not obtain the desired or targeted results because of challenges in the delivery system. It is increasingly apparent that development...
Global Report on Islamic Finance 2016
A Catalyst for Shared Prosperity?
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Income inequality has increased considerably in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007†“08 to the extent that one percent of global population possess almost half of the global assets. Whereas the development community is unanimous to tackle growing inequality and imbalance in the distribution...
World Development Report 2015
Mind, Society, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that humans...
World Development Report 2019
The Changing Nature of Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report...
World Development Report 2016
Digital Dividends
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Digital technologies are spreading rapidly, but digital dividends--the broader benefits of faster growth, more jobs, and better services--are not. If more than 40 percent of adults in East Africa pay their utility bills using a mobile phone, why can’t others around the world do the same? If 8 million...
World Development Report 2017
Governance and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law addresses these fundamental...
Becoming a Knowledge-Sharing Organization
A Handbook for Scaling Up Solutions through Knowledge Capturing and Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This volume offers a simple, systematic guide to creating a knowledge sharing practice in your organization. It shows how to build the enabling environment and develop the skills needed to capture and share knowledge gained from operational experiences to improve performance and scale-up successes. Its...