from military history. As the world moves toward multiple poles of growth, the multilateral institutions will need to play …Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, spoke on the theme of modernizing multilateralism and learning … a role in connecting developed and developing countries to work cooperatively. The World Bank is a facilitator of such …

The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the … the world's economies. The report provides ICP results for the benchmark year 2017 and revised results for earlier years …-operation and Development, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Notably, PPPs and ICP data are used in indicators monitoring …

statistics on the size of public procurement in economies around the world. While data are publicly available for High …-income economies, for the rest of the world, data and studies are scarce. However, public procurement is as important in developing …

The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …

applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …

the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …