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The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

By: World Bank Group

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The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

By: World Bank Group

The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group. This second edition is a follow-up to the first volume released for the 2014 Annual Meetings. The World Bank Group A to Z series builds on previous editions of A Guide to the World Bank to include features not found in its predecessors including: a graphical introduction to the World Bank Group, highlighting the Bank Group's goals, financials, regions, and results; examples and photos of Bank Group projects and programs; and tools to guide you to the information you are looking for (even if you don’t know exactly what that is). It also reflects the wide-ranging reforms that have taken place within the World Bank Group in recent years, including the launch of the new World Bank Group Strategy; new approaches to development; the establishment of new Global Practice Groups and Cross Cutting Solutions Areas; and the goal of becoming a "Solutions Bank," one that will marshal the vast reserves of evidence and experiential knowledge across the five World Bank Group agencies and apply them to local problems. With more than 280 entries arranged in encyclopedic A-to-Z format, readers can easily find up-to-date information about the five agencies of the World Bank Group and the wide range of areas in which they work: from agriculture, education, energy, health, social protection and labor to gender, jobs, conflict, private sector development, trade, water and climate change. The World Bank Group's work in all of these areas now focuses on two new twin goals: eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity of the poorest 40 percent in every developing country.

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1464806551

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The World Bank Group's Response to the Global Economic Crisis

Phase I

By: World Bank Staff

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The World Bank Group's Response to the Global Economic Crisis

Phase I

By: World Bank Staff

The World Bank Group has responded to the global economic crisis with a strong countercyclical expansion of financing. Its disbursements of 80 billion in the past two fiscal years were the largest among the Multilateral Development Banks. There was notable variation across the WBG, with vastly increased IBRD lending, moderately higher IDA financing, and overall responses from IFC and MIGA that were not counter-cyclical. The differences reflected the interplay of financial capacities, business models, and available instruments. While the level of financial flows is one aspect of crisis response

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0821386662

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The World Bank Group A to Z

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The World Bank Group A to Z provides ready-reference insight into the history, mission, organization, policies, financial services, and knowledge products of the world's largest anti-poverty institution.

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1464803838

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The World Bank Group's Partnership with the Global Environment Facility

By: The World Bank

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The World Bank Group's Partnership with the Global Environment Facility

By: The World Bank

The World Bank Group was a principal founding partner of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in its pilot phase in 1991, and of the restructured GEF in 1994. The Bank plays three different roles in the GEF: (a) as trustee of the GEF and related trust funds, (b) as implementing agency, including the implementation of private-sector GEF projects by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and (c) as the host organization of the functionally independent GEF secretariat. Focusing primarily on the role of the Bank as an implementing agency, this review documents how the partnership that the GEF and the World Bank Group established in the early 1990s has evolved over time, offers explanations for observed changes, and draws a number of lessons. The review addresses the following issues: * The mutual relevance of the World Bank Group and the GEF * Inter-organizational coordination along the World Bank Group-GEF project cycle * The introduction of the GEF’s resource allocation systems in 2006 and 2010 * The evolution and effectiveness of the Bank Group’s GEF portfolio * Catalytic approaches in the Bank Group-GEF partnership: co-financing, blending, and mainstreaming * The World Bank’s corporate activities as a GEF implementing agency. The principal purposes of this review are (a) to help improve the relevance and effectiveness of the Bank Group’s partnership with the GEF, and (b) to draw lessons for the Bank Group’s partnership with the GEF and other large global partnership programs.

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1464802211

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World Bank Group Support to Public-Private Partnerships

Lessons from Experience in Client Countries, FY02-12

By: World Bank World Bank

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World Bank Group Support to Public-Private Partnerships

Lessons from Experience in Client Countries, FY02-12

By: World Bank World Bank

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are long-term contracts between a private party and a government agency that strive to provide a public asset or service in which the private party bears both some risk and some management responsibility. If implemented well, PPPs can help overcome inadequate infrastructure that constrains economic growth, particularly in developing countries. The use of PPPs has increased in the last two decades; they are now used in more than 134 developing countries, contributing about 15-20 percent of total infrastructure investment. The World Bank Group has expanded its support to PPPs through a wide range of instruments and services. During the last 10 years, its support has increased about threefold, to nearly $3 billion per year. The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) assesses how effective the World Bank Group has been in helping countries use PPPs. In the evaluation, IEG examines the relevance of Bank Group support, how successful projects were, how the Bank Group coordinated support among its business lines (support to the public sector versus the private sector), and how it compares with the experience of other multilateral development banks with PPP support. IEG distills lessons to apply to the Bank Group's support of PPPs. Finally, IEG presents six recommendations that apply to both the organizational and the operational aspects of this work.

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1464806314

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The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

By: World Bank Group

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The World Bank Group and the Global Food Crisis

An Evaluation of the World Bank Group Response

By: The World Bank

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The World Bank Group and the Global Food Crisis

An Evaluation of the World Bank Group Response

By: The World Bank

The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group response in addressing the short-term impacts of the food price crisis and in enhancing the resilience of countries to future shocks.

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1464800928

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The World Bank Group and the Environment 1996

Environment Matters at the World Bank

By: World Bank

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Environment Matters at the World Bank

By: World Bank

On cover & title page: Environment matters

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0821335790

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Improving Investment Climates

An Evaluation of World Bank Group Assistance

By: Kristin Hallberg

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Improving Investment Climates

An Evaluation of World Bank Group Assistance

By: Kristin Hallberg

This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group in helping its member countries improve their investment climates, within the context of the World Bank Group's overall mission of poverty reduction and sustainable development.

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Improving Investment Climates

An Evaluation of World Bank Group Assistance

By: Kristin Hallberg

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An Evaluation of World Bank Group Assistance

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The World Bank Group A to Z

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Investment Climate Reforms

An Independent Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Reforms of Business Regulations

By: World Bank World Bank

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Investment Climate Reforms

An Independent Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Reforms of Business Regulations

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Private firms are at the forefront of the development process, providing more than 90 percent of jobs, supplying goods and services, and representing a significant source of tax revenues. Their ability to grow, create jobs, and reduce poverty depends critically on a well-functioning investment climate--defined as the policy, legal, and institutional arrangements underpinning the functioning of markets and the level of transaction costs and risks associated with starting, operating, and closing a business. The World Bank Group has provided extensive support to investment climate reforms. This evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) assesses the relevance, effectiveness, and social value of World Bank Group support to investment climate reforms as it relates to concerns for inclusion and shared prosperity. IEG finds that the World Bank Group has supported a comprehensive menu of investment climate reforms and has improved investment climate in countries, as measured by number of laws enacted, streamlining of processes and time, or simple cost savings for private firms. However, the impact on investment, jobs, business formation, and growth is not straightforward. Regulatory reforms need to be designed and implemented with both economic and social costs and benefits in mind; IEG found that, in practice, World Bank Group support focuses predominantly on reducing costs to businesses. In supporting investment climate reforms, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation use two distinct but complementary business models. Despite the fact that investment climate is the most integrated business unit in the World Bank Group, coordination is mostly informal, relying mainly on personal contacts. IEG recommends that the World Bank Group expand its range of diagnostic tools and integrate them in the areas of the business environment not yet covered by existing tools; develop an approach to identify the social effects of regulatory reforms on all groups expected to be affected by them beyond the business community; and exploit synergies by ensuring that World Bank and IFC staff improve their understanding of each other's work and business models.

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The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

The World Bank Group's Response to the Global Economic Crisis

The World Bank Group's Response to the Global Economic Crisis

The World Bank Group A to Z

The World Bank Group A to Z

The World Bank Group's Partnership with the Global Environment Facility

The World Bank Group's Partnership with the Global Environment Facility

World Bank Group Support to Public-Private Partnerships

World Bank Group Support to Public-Private Partnerships

The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

The World Bank Group A to Z 2016

The World Bank Group and the Global Food Crisis

The World Bank Group and the Global Food Crisis

The World Bank Group and the Environment 1996

The World Bank Group and the Environment 1996

Improving Investment Climates

Improving Investment Climates

Improving Investment Climates

Improving Investment Climates

The World Bank Group A to Z

The World Bank Group A to Z

Investment Climate Reforms

Investment Climate Reforms

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