This paper presents the main findings of the 2017 survey on national development banks that the World Bank conducted in … collaboration with the World Federation of Development Financing Institutions. Sixty-four development banks from different parts of … the world, mainly from middle-income countries, participated in the survey …

and regulatory framework options for credit reporting systems; Chapter 5 summarizes the World Bank Group's fifteen plus … years of experience in developing credit bureaus and credit registries around the world; Chapter 6 presents an overview of …

opportunities for savings. In order to assess the impact of counseling campaigns on consumers' knowledge about their financial …

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 … Association to International Bank for Reconstruction and Development status, which marks the point when countries start borrowing …

mobilization effects of multilateral lending on the size of bank inflows. The number of lenders and the average maturity of …, indicating that MDBs can mobilize about seven dollars in bank credit over a three-year period for each dollar invested …

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

Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, addressed the following issues: seeds of crisis; the changing context …; responsible globalization; the current role of the World Bank Group; the role of the World Bank Group in a new post-crisis World …; and the reform agenda. He pointed to four aspects of Group's future role: development finance; delivering knowledge …

This edition of the Law Digest for the World Bank Group's Sanctions Board presents structured summaries of the … relating to the work of the Sanctions Board and the World Bank Group's larger sanctions system. Themes covered in this digest … projects supported by the World Bank Group that form the core of individual sanctions cases …