World Bank Publications: 275 books
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...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the organization to changing circumstances and address concerns among external stakeholders about the role of aid in development. The reforms were motivated largely by widespread recognition that the Bank’s development...
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...
Women, Business and the Law 2016
Getting to Equal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In a changing world, how can we be sure that women as well as men entrepreneurs and workers obtain the benefit from these changes? Ensuring that women have the same legal opportunities as men is one part of the picture. By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, Women, Business and...
Growing Smarter
Learning and Equitable Development in East Asia and Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
One-quarter of the world’s school-age children live in East Asia and Pacific. During the past 50 years, some economies in the region have successfully transformed themselves by investing in the continuous upgrading of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of their workforce. Through policy foresight,...
Forcibly Displaced
Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Syrian refugee crisis has galvanized attention to one of the world’s foremost challenges: forced displacement. The total number of refugees and internally displaced persons, now at over 65 million, continues to grow as violent conflict spikes.This report, Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development...
Information and Communications for Development 2018
Data-Driven Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
The Information and Communications for Development series looks in depth at how information and communications technologies are affecting economic growth in developing countries. This new report, the fourth in the series, examines the topic of data-driven development, or how better information makes...
The Sunken Billions Revisited
Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This report updates previous studies that measured in economic terms the extent of biological losses attributable to overfishing globally. The new estimates assess these 'sunken billions' at $83 billion annually. The report further shows that a clear path can lead to the recovery of these considerable...
The Welfare of Syrian Refugees
Evidence from Jordan and Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Syrian refugee crisis, which began in 2011, is one of the most pressing disasters in the world today, with its effects reverberating around the globe. By the end of 2015, more than 7.6 million of the country’s people had been internally displaced and 4.3 million were registered refugees. The number...
Highways to Success or Byways to Waste
Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation...
Measuring Gender Equality
Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right and also smart development policy and business practice. No society can develop sustainably without giving men and women equal power to shape their own lives and contribute to their families, communities, and countries. And yet, critical...
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...