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 …

to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital … 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 …

Association to International Bank for Reconstruction and Development status, which marks the point when countries start borrowing … development lending in International Bank for Reconstruction and Development countries is accompanied by a greater use of budget …This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition …

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 …

Bank Group addressed current and emerging development challenges. This year's RAP focuses on gender integration in World … the World Bank Group website's topic page on gender states the essential importance of gender for development. In line …The Independent Evaluation Group's (IEG) Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (RAP) is a comprehensive …

This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique …

1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country …This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and …

development solutions. Openness, transparency, and accountability are key features - not only of the World Bank Group - but of …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 …