Stockholm, Sweden - World Bank Vice President, Axel van Trotsenburg, met with amongst others the State Secretary for International Development Cooperation, Hanna Hellquist, when visiting Stockholm on November 9. The two amongst others discussed the implementation of IDA16, the World Bank's fund for the poorest, and the operationalization of gender equality in the World Bank's programs. The two also discussed the openness agenda, and how to continue to sharpen the focus on results in the World Bank's work.

To learn more about the World Bank's fund for the poorest, see www.worldbank.org/ida

To read the World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality and Development, see www.worldbank.org/wdr2012

To see World Bank programs on the country level, and associated results, see http://maps.worldbank.org