World Bank Publications: 275 books
Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016
Long-Term Finance
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 focuses on the ability of financial systems to sustainably extend the maturity of financial contracts for private agents. The challenges of extending the maturity structure of finance are often considered to be at the core of effective, sustainable financial...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Over the last decade, a policy revolution has been underway in the developing and emerging world. Country after country is systematically providing non-contributory transfers to poor and vulnerable people, in order to protect them against economic shocks and to enable them to invest in themselves and...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2015
The Global Economy in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Global growth is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2015, but is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in 2016-17. Growth in developing countries and some high-income countries is set to disappoint again this year. The prospect of rising borrowing costs will compound the challenges many developing countries...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
World Development Indicators 2015 World Development Indicators 2015 provides a compilation of relevant, highquality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers,...
The Global Findex Database 2017
Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global...
by World Bank World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
World Development Indicators 2016 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens find and use data related...
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018
Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
The World Bank Group has two overarching goals: End extreme poverty by 2030 and promote shared prosperity by boosting the incomes of the bottom 40 percent of the population in each economy. As this year’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity report documents, the world continues to make progress toward...
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,...
Risks and Returns
Managing Financial Trade-Offs for Inclusive Growth in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
During the 1990s, Emerging Europe and Central Asia (ECA) opted for a model of rapid financial development focused on bank credit expansion often funded by foreign capital. This model helped boost the financial inclusion of firms and households, but was also accompanied by lower financial efficiency...
Doing Business 2017
Equal Opportunity for All
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Fourteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2017 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property...
Doing Business 2019
Training for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property...
Doing Business 2018
Reforming to Create Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property...
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...