Since the 1970s, the world has embarked on a new financial globalization era. Cross-country capital flows have … significantly increased in developed and developing countries. However, the characteristics of financial globalization differ from … financial globalization (such as additional funding, broad diversification, and deeper financial systems), the positive effects …

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 …

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 …