much higher than previous recession lows, often as high as in 2005-07, a period of robust world growth. Furthermore, prices …

playing field' would be ineffective and result in destructive conflicts in the World Trade Organization. Lack of progress at …

Development Goal-related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to … minimize the drawbacks of earlier studies. The paper also briefly reviews how the World Bank Group engages with stakeholders on …

More than halfway through the 15-year timeline, the world is still far from reaching the 17 Sustainable Development …

development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the … developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis. The poor countries are … survival. At high- level meetings held in 2008 to mark the MDG halfway point, world leaders expressed grave concern that the …

world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the conference in Bali in …

The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) assess the conduciveness of a country's policy and …