This handy pocket guide provides data for more than 20 key indicators on the business environment and private sector development for each of the World Bank member countries and other economies more than 30,000 inhabitants. The 214 country pages are supplemented by aggregate data tables by regional and income groupings.
Bangladesh is committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2032; to this end, the government of Bangladesh is exploring policy options to increase fiscal space for health and expand coverage while improving service quality and availability. Despite Bangladesh's impressive strides in improving its economic and social development ......
learning from local success stories in service delivery in the Middle East and North Africa
From education to health services, weak overall accountability undermines policies and actual delivery, in a cycle of low performance throughout the region. Yet local successes indicate how formal and informal accountability and local leadership can inspire and institutionalize incentives to improve this situation.
The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterised by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing (South) countries. However, the recent rise of developing economies suggests the need to go beyond this North-South dichotomy. This tectonic ......
The Little Data Book 2015 is a pocket edition of World Development Indicators 2015. It is intended as a quick reference for users of the World Development Indicators database, book, and mobile app. The database covers more than 1,200 indicators and spans more than 50 years. The 214 country tables present the latest available data for World Bank ......
This pocket-sized reference on key development data for more than 200 countries provides profiles of each country with 54 development indicators about the financial sector access and services for lower income people.
International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2015 is a continuation of the World Bank's Global Development Finance publication, Volume II (1997 through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996). IDS 2015 provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external ......
Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealised model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday thinking actually works. This year's World Development Report argues that a more realistic account of decision-making and behaviour will make ......
This year's report will present data for a second city for the 11 economies with more than 100 million inhabitants. These are Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, and the United States. It updates all indicators as of June 1, 2014, ranks economies on their overall 'ease of doing ......
