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Statement by Rt. Hon. Helen Clark at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016.

This is a statement by Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Program and Chair of the United Nations Development Group at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104881 Date:
Statement by Dr. Fahad A. Almubarak at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016

This is a statement by Mr. Fahad A. Almubarak, Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016. He states that the year 2015...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104895 Date:
Statement by Arun Jaitley at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016.

This is a statement by Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information and Broadcasting at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016. The Development...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104889 Date:
Statement by Rt. Hon. Justine Greening, and Rt. Hon. George Osborne at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016.

This is a statement by Rt. Hon. Justine Greening, MP Secretary of State for International Development; and Rt. Hon. George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer at the ninety-third meeting of the Development...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104887 Date:
Statement by H.E. Magdalena Andersson at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016

This is a statement by H.E. Magdalena Andersson, Minister of Finance at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016. Time has come to move from words to action and implement...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104884 Date:
Statement by Mr. Guy Ryder at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016

This is a statement by Mr. Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labor Organization at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016. He states that the growth of the...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104900 Date:
Chairman’s Statement : Global Infrastructure Forum 2016

Mandated by the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, as an outcome of the third international conference on financing for development, the global infrastructure forum is being established by the MDBs to help bridge...
Type: Brief Report#: 166386 Date:
Statement by Mr. Luis de Guindos at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016

This is a statement by Mr. Luis de Guindos, Minister of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016. He states that the World Bank...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104892 Date:
Statement by the Honourable Bill Morneau at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016

This is a statement by Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016. On behalf of Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean countries...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104891 Date:
Statement by H.E. Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa at the 93rd meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016

This is a statement by H.E. Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa, Minister of Finance at the ninety-third meeting of the Development Committee held on April 16, 2016. The recent events in the Middle East and...
Type: Board Report Report#: 104890 Date:
Blending public and private finance : what lessons can be learned from IFC’s experience?

Following international agreement on the sustainable development goals, governments are now confronting the critical issue of funding the enormous investments - especially in infrastructure - required...
Type: Brief Report#: 106019 Date: Author: Klein, Michael
Closing the gap : building resilience to natural disasters and man-made shocks through social safety nets

Social safety nets and the broader social protection are widely recognized as one of the instruments to build resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and ultimately to reduce poverty....
Type: Brief Report#: 104868 Date:
Open Data for Sustainable Development

The open data principle is becoming an increasingly important part of the data revolution, which is recognized worldwide as a key engine for achieving the post-2015 United Nation (UN) sustainable development...
Type: Brief Report#: 166342 Date:
Open data for sustainable development

The Open data principle is becoming an increasingly important part of the data revolution, which is recognized worldwide as a key engine for achieving the post-2015 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development...
Type: Brief Report#: 107708 Date: Author: Gurin, Joel Lawrence ; Manley, Laura So Hee ; Petrov, Oleg V.
Uganda - Country partnership framework for the period FY16-21

This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) presents the World Bank Group (WBG) program for the Republic of Uganda for the period FY16-21. The CPF responds to the Government of Uganda vision of a transformed...
Type: Country Partnership Framework Report#: 101173 Date:
The costs of meeting the 2030 sustainable development goal targets on drinking water sanitation, and hygiene : data catalog

This dataset analyzes the global costs of meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal targets on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The spreadsheet allows recalculation of results at country...
Type: Working Paper Report#: 103248 Date:
West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program

In Africa, agriculture accounts for employment and gross domestic product (GDP), but poverty remains high in rural areas where most of the population depends on agriculture to make a living. By raising...
Type: Brief Report#: 166341 Date:
SABER - Equity and inclusion

Equity and inclusion are at the core of the World Bank Group’s twin goals of eradicating extreme poverty and building shared prosperity. Within the Education Global Practice, promoting equity and inclusion...
Type: Brief Report#: 115381 Date:
Price seasonality in Africa : measurement and extent

Everyone knows about seasonality. But what exactly do we know? This study systematically measures seasonal price gaps at 193 markets for 13 food commodities in seven African countries. It shows that the...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS7539 Date: Author: Christiaensen, Luc ; Gilbert, Christopher L. ; Kaminski, Jonathan
Harnessing the Internet for Development

Universal access to the Internet has become a top development priority. Getting there requires affordable, reliable access to fast, always on broadband networks, one of the United Nations’ (UN) sustainable...
Type: Brief Report#: 166332 Date: