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 …

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote … percentage points faster than the mean, the World Bank's poverty goal is achieved with the global poverty falling to below 3 …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …

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 …