This report assesses the accessibility, openness, usability and technical functionality of 22 publicly available data portals that features data related to Nepal. This is a purposive and non-probability...
Increasing volumes of statistical data are being made available on the open web, including from the World Bank. This 'data deluge' provides both opportunities and challenges. Good use of these data requires...
This note provides a brief explanation of the methods used to impute PPP rates at the GDP and private consumption level for economies that did not participate in the 2005 ICP round. Although these ‘non-benchmark’...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a multidimensional framework for attacking poverty in a world of multi-polar growth. By focusing on measurable results, they provide a scorecard for assessing...
The information and communication technology (ICT) is transforming interactions between people, governments, and firms worldwide. In developing countries, farmers receive updated crop prices and public...
Included in this issue: interview with the Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). New demands for consumer price indices (CPI) and purchasing power parity...
The Little Data Book (LDB) 2007 is a pocket edition of World Development Indicators (WDI) 2007. It is intended as a quick reference for users of the WDI 2007 book and CD-ROM and WDI online, electronic...
This year the preliminary results of the international comparison program are being released, providing new comparisons of price levels for more than 140 countries. The program, the largest single data...
The developing world has made remarkable progress. The number of people living in extreme poverty on less than $1 a day has fallen by about 400 million in the last 25 years. Many more children, particularly...
The book offers a realistic assessment of experiences, trends, and outlook on the Information, Communications Technology (ICT) sector, with a focus on actual results and justified expectations. It attempts...
The book offers a realistic assessment of experiences, trends, and outlook on the Information, Communications Technology (ICT) sector, with a focus on actual results and justified expectations. It attempts...
This sourcebook was written to assist low-income countries with the development and strengthening of their poverty reduction strategies. This book has been designed as a resource for analysis and discourse...
This sourcebook was written to assist low-income countries with the development and strengthening of their poverty reduction strategies. This book has been designed as a resource for analysis and discourse...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: it's a small world: meeting again 30 years later, by Jill Roessner; Meet Kofi, Maria and Sunita: stories from the World Bank, by Jill...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: negotiation: the high tech, low budget approach, by Mark Kosmo; are you stressed? You're not alone; lessons from New Zealand: what...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: travels with the first lady; innovation and cooperation, by Michael J. Eddy; adopting a school, by Morallina Fanwar-George; October...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: learning and development by Thomas, Vinod; Economic Development Institute (EDI) in retrospect 1955 to 1995 by Oxenham, John; from privatization...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: together, we can change the World, by Jill Roessner; a fishy tale, by Jan Post; communicating about the Bank in Cote d'Ivoire, by Robert...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: glass ceilings-bad for business, by Sheila Reines; who's reading the policy research bulletin? By Heather Imboden; and who's reading...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: James D. Wolfensohn is new President; meet Anette Pedersen; human capital and poverty alleviation; from K Street to Kenai, by Bob Satin;...