World Bank Publications: 275 books
A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity
Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In 2013, the World Bank Group adopted two new goals to guide its work: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. More specifically, the goals are to reduce extreme poverty in the world to less than 3 percent by 2030, and to foster income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2015 is a continuation of the World Bank's Global Development Finance publication, Volume II (1997 through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996). IDS 2015 provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report...
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 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...