What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …

This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …

The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, launched by the World Bank in 2011, provides comparable … indicators showing how people around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The 2014 edition of the database …

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …