World Bank
Biographic Data
| ID | 77295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | World Bank |
| GIVEN NAMES | World |
| FAMILY NAME | Bank |
| SIGNATURE | BANK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 536 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 532 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Rethinking Caribbean Tourism: Strategies for a More Sustainable Future
This report assesses the current performance of tourism in the Caribbean1 and, in light of the new trends, identifies future pathways and policies for sustainable growth in three targeted segments. These segments were selected to include the traditional markets of cruise and all-inclusive resort accommodation as well as new opportunities in the high-value segment of adventure tourism. Cruise and all-inclusive resorts continue to be priorities for…
Accelerating Access to Clean Air for a Livable Planet
Air pollution is taking a heavy toll on both people and economies across the world. Reducing it will require effective, targeted, and integrated policies. This report identifies the main sources of air pollution in the world today, with a focus on ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5). It deploys scenario modeling to assess the extent to which current air pollution policies will reduce exposure to PM2.5 by 2040, and to show how adopting an inte…
Lebanon Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA)
This report presents the Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) related to the impact of the 2023–2024 conflict that affected Lebanon, conducted by the World Bank at the request of the Government of Lebanon and in collaboration with the National Council for Scientific Research - Lebanon (CNRS-L). The RDNA estimates the impact of the conflict in terms of physical damage and economic losses and identifies preliminary recovery and reconstruction n…
Scaling Up Locally-Led Climate Action in Cambodia
Cambodia has recorded impressive economic growth and improvements in social well-being in the last two decades, and it aspires to become an upper-middle income country by 2030 and a high-income country 2050. However, this progress is threatened by climate change. If appropriate and risk-informed adaptation actions are not taken, Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDP) may fall 9.4 percent by 2050 and crop yields could fall 30 percent under a high…
Lebanon Poverty and Equity Assessment 2024 - Weathering a Protracted Crisis
This report provides an assessment of the current state of poverty and inequality in Lebanon. It documents the impact of a protracted economic crisis on households, that is well into its fifth year, along with their responses and investigates how the crisis has potentially affected labor market dynamics in the country. The report aims to be a resource for policymakers, researchers, and organizations working to identify and address the multifacete…
Air Quality Assessment for Tashkent and the Roadmap for Air Quality Management Improvement in Uzbekistan
According to the latest World Bank report on the global health cost of particles with diameter less than 2.5 microns (μm) (PM2.5) air pollution, Uzbekistan has the second highest annual average PM2.5 concentration among the countries in Central Asia. This report summarizes the main results from a technical assessment of air quality in Tashkent (Part I) that informed the definition of sectoral policies and measures (PaMs) in the roadmap for air qu…
Libya Storm and Flooding 2023: Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment
The objective of the RDNA is to estimate the impact of the storm and floods on physical assets and service delivery in the most affected areas and take stock of the ensuing recovery needs. The RDNA covers 20 municipalities and provides indepth analysis of the five most affected cities (Derna, Soussa, Al-Bayda, Al-Marj, and Shahhat) The RDNA employs an assessment methodology developed by the WB, EU and UN that has been successfully applied in nume…
Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities 2024
By assessing discrimination in laws, regulations, and policies, the Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (EQOSOGI) initiative examines institutionalized challenges encountered by sexual and gender minorities. This second edition of the EQOSOGI report expands its coverage from 16 to 64 countries representing different geographic areas, income levels, legal traditions, and inclusiveness of sexual and gender minorities, ensuring …
Cambodia Public Finance Review: From Spending More to Spending Better
During the last decade Cambodia succeeded in achieving significant domestic resource mobilization which in turn enabled a rapid expansion of social spending. During the next decade it should shift from spending more to spending better. This Public Finance Review (PFR) informs the next phase of the government’s public financial management (PFM) reform strategy (achieving performance accountability) and to provide analytical basis for the governmen…
Gender Equality in Development: A Ten-Year Retrospective
This retrospective report explores global progress and lessons learned over the past 10 years in promoting gender equality. This report takes stock of global progress and considers the impact of evidence-backed solutions to close the most persistent gender gaps. It examines the evolution of World Bank Group’s engagement on gender and highlights promising approaches. Reflections and findings will enable the WBG and its partners to develop a deeper…
The Business of the State: Why Going Beyond State-Owned Enterprises Matters for Private Sector Development
The state, as an owner of businesses, competes and collaborates with the private sector at the firm level, market level, and economywide, and this involvement has profound implications for investment and growth. Governments actively participate in commercial markets in different forms, from controlling the production of goods and services to investing in firms as a minority shareholder. The impact of state participation on an economy’s growth dep…
Socioeconomic Profile of Refugee and Host Households in Nairobi
Kenya has hosted refugees since its independence in 1963, although refugee policy has shifted from an integration approach towards an encampment model. The flow of asylum seekers into Kenya gained momentum in the early 1970s. Refugees from Uganda and other neighboring countries such as Sudan and Ethiopia, fled to the country. Many had families or relatives living in Kenya and were well-off professionals and business people. In order to encourage …
Philippine Jobs Report: Shaping a Better Future for the Filipino Workforce
Shaping a Better Future for the Filipino Workforce aims to inform jobs policy by examining key determinants and outcomes of jobs. Jobs are created when the macroeconomic environment is conducive and policies are predictable to businesses with sustained growth, trades, and investments. At the same time, a large body of literature also shows that economic growth alone is not sufficient for generating jobs. Jobs are created when firms pursue expansi…
The Future of Pacific Tourism
Over the two decades preceding the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, tourism became one of the most important drivers of economic growth across the Pacific. The COVID-19 crisis had a devastating impact on tourism activity in the Pacific, with severe and potentially durable economic and social consequences. This study takes a fresh look at tourism’s role for development in the Pacific, its future after COVID-19, and the scope to foster…
Insights of the World Bank Inspection Panel: Responding to Project Gender-Based Violence Complaints Through an Independent Accountability Mechanism
The World Bank Inspection Panel is an independent complaints mechanism for people who believe they have been or will be adversely affected by the World Bank not complying with its operational environmental and social safeguard policies in projects that it funds. The Panel’s process seeks redress for affected communities. It investigates the Bank, not its member or borrower countries. Although the Bank has a 2003 operational directive that seeks t…
Overview
Defines migrants as people who live outside their country of nationality—whether they moved in search of better economic opportunities or were displaced by conflict or persecution (refugees)—and proposes an analytical framework incorporating both dimensions to distinguish between four types of movements, and identifying policy priorities for each: (1) economic migrants with a strong match; (2) refugees with a strong match; (3) refugees with a wea…
World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies
No AccessWorld Development Report3 Aug 2023World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and SocietiesAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1941-4AboutView ChaptersPDF (13.3 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people--2.3 percent of the world's population--live outside of th…
World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies
World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies
The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration
Governments across the world make thousands of personnel management decisions, procure millions of goods and services, and execute billions of processes each day. They are data rich. And yet, there is little systematic practice to-date which capitalizes on this data to make public administrations work better. This means that governments are missing out on data insights to save billions in procurement expenditures, recruit better talent into gover…
Uganda Poverty Assessment
The share of Uganda’s population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly influenced by shocks that have tested the resilience of the people. About 30 percent of the country’s population was poor in 2019-20, which is comparable to the poverty rate of 30.7 percent in 2012-13. The pattern of fluctuating poverty rates is largely driven by the experience of rural households. There was a surge in the poverty …
Expecting the Unexpected
Tourism has been, and continues to be, one of the most affected sectors by the pandemic, resulting in negative socio-economic consequences for host communities in destinations as well as for underlying endowments that rely on tourists’ expenditure for maintenance and management. The aim of this report is to provide insights regarding the types of interventions governments have already implemented and policy considerations for supporting the recov…
Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2021
Finance and Financial Sector Development-Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships Finance and Financial Sector Development-Debt Relief and HIPC Finance and Financial Sector Development-Strategic Debt Management Macroeconomics and Economic Growth-Economic Growth Macroeconomics and Economic Growth-Economic Policy, Institutions and Governance Macroeconomics and Economic Growth-Fiscal & Monetary Policy Poverty Reduction-Employment and Shared Grow…
Latin America and the Caribbean Macro Poverty Outlook
This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlook periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic product and gross domestic product per capita - and where available – other indicators such as primary school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, total greenhouse…
Cambodia Economic Update: Navigating Global Economic Headwinds
While recovering from Coronavirus \n (COVID-19),Cambodia’s economy is now facing global economic \n headwinds. The current account improved in the first half of \n 2022 as the trade deficit narrowed. Rising global energy, \n fertilizer and food prices prompted a surge in inflation. \n Rising inflation is particularly harmful to poor households. \n To mitigate impacts of the food and oil price shock, the \n authorities are planning to introduce ad…
World Development Report 2008
No AccessWorld Development Report1 Feb 2013World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for DevelopmentAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-6807-7AboutView ChaptersPDF (6.8 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: Abstract The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain ag…
World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health (World Development Report)
No AccessWorld Development Report1 Feb 2013World Development Report 1993Investing in Health, Volume1Authors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-1952-0890-0AboutView ChaptersPDF (6.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This is the sixteenth in the annual series and examines the interplay between human health, health policy and economic development. Because good health…
Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth : Along-Term Perspective Study.
World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development
World Development Report 1996
No AccessWorld Development Report1 Feb 2013World Development Report 1996From Plan to MarketAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-1952-1107-8AboutView ChaptersPDF (19.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This World Development Report examines the transition of countries with alternative systems of centrally planned economies back to a market orientation. Th…
World Development Report 1991
No AccessWorld Development Report1 Feb 2013World Development Report 1991The Challenge of DevelopmentAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-1952-0868-9AboutView ChaptersPDF (6.7 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This report is the fourteenth in an annual series assessing major development issues. This report synthesizes and interprets the lessons of more th…
Together We Stand, Divided We Fall: Levels and Determinants of Social Capital in Argentina
The study looks at recent analytical work concerning social issues in Argentina, which suggest both inequality, and unemployment are worsening, aggravated by pessimism and despair - partly shaped by a recession of almost three years - as well as by the inadequacy of public institutions. This study examines the case of Argentina, and draws on its existing social capital as an immediate strategy, and an investment for the future, to assess the role…
Assessing aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why.
A Silver Lining
In 2020, Malaysia passes a crucial milestone in its demographic trajectory and becomes an aging society. Driven by a precipitous decline in fertility accompanied by a sustained rise in life expectancy, in recent years Malaysia has seen an uptick in the pace of demographic change. Rapid aging will be one of the most crucial megatrends affecting Malaysia in coming decades, raising policy challenges in areas such as employment, income security, heal…
Adjustment in Africa: Reforms, Results, and the Road Ahead.
World Development Report 2005
No AccessWorld Development Report1 Feb 2013World Development Report 2005A Better Investment Climate for EveryoneAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5682-8AboutView ChaptersPDF (9.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Firms and entrepreneurs of all types—from microenterprises to multinationals—play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their inv…
The World Bank Annual Report 2008: Year In Review
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013The World Bank Annual Report 2008Year In ReviewAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7675-1SectionsAboutPDF (6.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This Annual Report, which covers the period from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, has been prepared by the Executive Directors of both the International Bank for Reconstr…
Curbing the epidemic: Governments and the economics of tobacco control
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Curbing the epidemicGovernments and the economics of tobacco controlAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4519-2SectionsAboutPDF (0.6 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Besides the often asked questions on smokers ' health related risks, and cost-bearing of their consumption choices, the report examines basically, the e…
Transition--The First Ten Years: Analysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Transition--The First Ten YearsAnalysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet UnionAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5038-2SectionsAboutPDF (0.7 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This study looks at lessons to be drawn from the ten-year experience of the transition countries in Eastern Europe and the…
World Development Report 1992
Mauritius: Managing Success
Inequality and Economic Development in Brazil
No AccessCountry Studies1 Feb 2013Inequality and Economic Development in BrazilAuthors/Editors: World Bank, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Velez, Ricardo Paes de BarrosWorld Bank, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Velez, Ricardo Paes de Barroshttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5880-4SectionsAboutPDF (5.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Inequality and Economic Developme…
Better Health in Africa: Experience and Lessons Learned
Philippines Urbanization Review
Urban Development-City Development Strategies Urban Development-Municipal Financial Management Urban Development-Urban Economic Development Urban Development-Urban Poverty Urban Development-Urban Services to the Poor Urban Development-National Urban Development Policies & Strategies
African art: The World Bank Collection
This first catalogue featuring pieces from the World Bank's permanent art collection focuses on African traditional artwork--textiles, sculptures, pottery, and paintings as well as functional objects--from the Maghreb to Mali and from the former Zaire to Zambia. Three essays accompanying the photographs provide threads on how to interpret historical, social, and religious meaning in these works of art. The first essay underscores three points: 1)…
Latin America after Mexico: Quickening the pace
No AccessWorld Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies1 Feb 2013Latin America after MexicoQuickening the paceAuthors/Editors: Shahid Javed Burki, Sebastian Edwards, World BankShahid Javed Burki, Sebastian Edwards, World Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3629-0SectionsAboutPDF (0.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This report introduces a new World Bank publication which will revi…
Illegal Logging, Fishing, and Wildlife Trade
Environment-Biodiversity Social Development-Crime and Society Public Sector Development-Public Sector Corruption/Anticorruption Measures
Making the Most of Ports in West Africa
Ports have always played an essential \n role in this highly trade-dependent region. While there are \n still wide disparities in terms of throughput volumes and \n capacity, traffic has been growing rapidly in most countries \n over the last decade. Overall, total throughput in West \n Africa grew from around 105 million tons in 2006 to 165 \n million tons in 2012. Likewise, containerized traffic \n remains limited in West Africa compared to oth…
Madagascar
A well-functioning land administration and management system is crucial for Madagascar's economic and social future. Land is implicated in Madagascar's ongoing economic development and social transformation in many important ways, as key a factor in its quest for economic growth, urbanization, transparent decision-making on land-related foreign investments, environment protection, vibrant and sustainable rural communities, political stability, an…
Engendering development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice
"Engendering Development - Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice brings together existing and new research from several social science disciplines to examine the costs of persistent gender disparities to well-being and countries' development prospects. It explores how formal and informal institutions shape gender roles and relations and how household decisions and behaviors reproduce those roles, the relationship between economi…
Population, Resources and the Future: Non-Malthusian Perspectives
World Bank Atlas [1974]. Population, Per Capita Product and Growth Rates
World Bank Atlas: Per Capita Product, and Growth Rates
Brazil: Human Resources Special Report
World Development Report 1985
This report focuses on the contribution that international capital makes to economic development. While the report pays close attention to the events of the recent past, it also places the use of foreign capital in a broader and longer-term perspective. Using such a perspective, the report shows how countries at different stages of development have used external finance productively; how the institutional and policy environment affects the volume…
World Development Report 1988
The World Bank research program 1986: Abstracts of current studies
Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth : Along-Term Perspective Study.
World Development Report 1990
This report is the thirteenth in the annual series addressing major development issues. This report is about the poor. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development : the eradication of poverty from the world. The report defines poverty in broad terms, to include literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that rapid and politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a stra…
Indonesia: Family Planning Perspectives in the 1990s
Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies for Adjustment, Revitalization, and Expansion
Overview
Suggests that that there may be an interaction between different forms of investment (human, physical, and infrastructure) and the quality of policies. Despite vast opportunities created by the technological revolutions of the twentieth century, more than 1 billion people, one fifth of the world's population, live on less than one dollar a day, and nearly 95 percent of the increase in the world's labor force during the next 25 years will occur in…
Priorities for Action
Concludes that for continued progress of development, it is the particular responsibility of the industrial countries and the finance agencies to defend and extend the liberal order of international trade established after 1945; ease the flow of capital across borders; pursue domestic economic policies that promote global saving and steady, noninflationary growth; support the transfer of technology; and protect the environment and conserve energy…
Paths to Development
Defines economic development as a sustainable increase in living standards that encompass material consumption, education, health, and environmental protection. The firmest foundation for lasting development is investing in people: sustained development in many countries can be largely explained by investment in the education of men and women and in physical capital; they achieved high productivity from these investments by giving markets, compet…
The Climate for Enterprise
Emphasizes three key ingredients of productivity—the right market incentives, the right institutions, and the right supportive investments. Good government policies, institutions, and investments are vital, but the key to rapid development is the entrepreneur; a climate which allows businesses to respond to an appropriate set of signals will provide entrepreneurs with the incentives to embark on productive and profitable activities. Entrepreneurs…
Investing in People
Describes progress achieved in human welfare, highlighted by economies such as Japan and the Republic of Korea, which committed themselves to education and training and made great strides in both human development and economic growth. The evidence that education promotes economic growth, and thus puts other goals of development within reach, is firm: a one-year increase in schooling can augment wages by more than 10 percent after allowing for oth…
The Macroeconomic Foundation
Illustrates that macroeconomic stability is necessary for sustainable growth by comparing the experience of the East Asian economies in the 1970s and 1980s with that of Latin America in the past decade. A prudent fiscal policy forms the foundation of a stable macroeconomy, since taxes and public spending affect resource allocation, and fiscal deficits affect both the balance of payments and depending on how they are financed, the rate of inflatio…
The World Economy in Transition
Chronicles the momentum of progress of the last two centuries to provide the global context against which the governments of developing countries must form their economic policies. Today more than 4 billion people, or nearly 80 percent of the world's population, live in developing countries, with a share in global output at less than 20 percent. Factors such as the growth of world trade, the policies adopted by industrial countries, and the state…
Rethinking the State
Reconsiders the role of government in development in light of political instability and other political issues in many developing countries. Economic modernization creates new sources of wealth, which can shake the coalition on which traditional social order was established, a transition affecting many developing countries today, where fragile social consensus, entrenched special interests, and weak administrative capacity have influenced their c…
Integration with the Global Economy
Explains that integration with the global trading system affects technological change in two ways: it improves the supply of new technology, and it raises the demand for new technology. Technology is embodied in imported inputs and capital goods, sold directly through licensing agreements, and transmitted through direct foreign investment, labor movements, or contacts with foreign buyers, yet a market-friendly approach also requires government ac…
Urban policy and economic development: An agenda for the 1990s.
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Urban policy and economic developmentAn agenda for the 1990s.Authors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-1816-0SectionsAboutPDF (0.6 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This paper analyzes the fiscal, financial and real sector linkages between urban economic activities and macroeconomic performance. It builds on this analysis …
World Development Report 1991
No AccessWorld Development Report1 Feb 2013World Development Report 1991The Challenge of DevelopmentAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-1952-0868-9AboutView ChaptersPDF (6.7 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This report is the fourteenth in an annual series assessing major development issues. This report synthesizes and interprets the lessons of more th…
Mauritius: Managing Success
Governance and Development
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's depiction study of early childhood education and care programs in the Northwest and Hawaii documents the extent of program development in the region.In four sections, this report of the study: (1) describes the emerging structure of early childhood services, reviewing key findings and projecting trends in program development; (2) lays out a framework for assessing the potential costs of expanding ea…
World Development Report 1992
This is the fifteenth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The World Development Report 1992 explores the links between economic development and the environment. The 1990 report on poverty, last year's report on development strategies, and this report constitute a trilogy on the goals and means of development. The main message of this year's report is the need to integrate environmental considerations into development policyma…
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