Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the following topics. The Bank is helping many manage the …

Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about leaving behind the past and facing today …'s challenges squarely, constructively, and creatively. This is not the 1944 world that surrounded the creation of the Bank. Old … responsible stakeholders in an interdependent global economy. Zoellick spoke of what this new world means for development. Modern …

countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …

This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition … support. The results are robust to controlling for non-World Bank aid, as well as various alternative specifications and …

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 …

A star is born -- Freeing the world of poverty -- How much farther can we see? -- Where to now? …

implications for food security in affected regions. An important step toward tackling the world's water quality challenge is … recognizing its scale. The world needs reliable, accurate, and comprehensive information so that policy makers can have new …