World Bank Web Sites
B-SPAN Webcasting
Internet-based broadcasting station that presents World Bank seminars, workshops and conferences on sustainable development and poverty reduction. Web site Community Driven Development (CDD)
Link to the web site of the CDD Group at the World Bank. Web site Development Committee
Forum of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that facilitates intergovernmental consensus-building on development issues. Known formally as the Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the IMF on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries, the Committee was established in 1974. Its mandate is to advise the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the IMF on critical development issues and the financial resources required to promote economic development in developing countries. Over the years, it has interpreted this mandate to include trade and global environmental issues in addition to traditional development matters. Web site Data & Statistics
Managed by the World Bank's Development Data Group, this web site contains data & metadata on development statistics produced by the Bank and other international agencies, tools to access data, Bank-wide processes to collect and produce the data, information on statistical capacity building, the International Comparison Program (ICP), and external debt and other data initiatives. Web site Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC), World Bank
DEC seeks to increase understanding of development policies and programs by providing intellectual leadership and analytical services to the Bank and the development community. DEC is the research and development arm of the World Bank. Web Site Debt Initiative for Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
Includes policy documents, news of the review process, country case studies, statistics on debt.
Web Site Doing Business Database (DB)
The Doing Business database provides measures of business regulations and their enforcement. Indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth. Web site Fragile States: the LICUS Initiative
The LICUS (Low Income Countries Under Stress) Initiative is the World Bank’s response to improving development aid effectiveness in fragile states. LICUS is working with development partners to create an analytic framework and assemble the right tools to help countries in difficult circumstances. Web Site Gender and Development
Link to the Gender and Development web site of the World Bank. Web site Health, Nutrition & Population (HNP)
Link to the Health, Nutrition & Population web site of the World Bank. Web site International Development Association
A World Bank Group institution that helps the earth’s poorest countries reduce poverty by providing interest-free loans and some grants for programs aimed at boosting economic growth and improving living conditions. IDA funds help these countries deal with the complex challenges they face in striving to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Web site Investment Climate Surveys (ICS)
Data on the investment climate in 58 countries, based on surveys of almost 32,000 firms. Enterprise surveys measure business perceptions of the investment climate, and can be used to analyze the link to job creation and productivity growth. Web site MDGs
Commits the international community to an expanded vision of development, one that vigorously promotes human development as the key to sustaining social and economic progress in all countries, and recognizes the importance of creating a global partnership for development. The goals have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress. Web site Poverty Net
PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners. Web site Public Sector Governance
Links to the Web site of the Public Sector Governance Group of the World Bank. Web site Trade
Link to the Trade web site of the World Bank. Web site The World Bank Institute (WBI)
The WBI supports the World Bank's learning and knowledge agenda by providing learning programs and policy services. Web site The World Bank Institute (WBI) Governance & Anti-Corruption
Link to the web site of the World Bank Institute (WBI) Governance & Anti-Corruption program.
Web site World Development Indicators (WDI)
Offers the World Bank's comprehensive database on development data, covering more than 600 indicators, 208 economies, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection of development data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than 40 years. Web site World Development Reports (WDR)
A guide to the economic, social and environmental state of the world today. Each year the report provides in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of development. Past reports have considered such topics as the role of the state, transition economies, labor, infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. The reports are the Bank's best-known contribution to thinking about development. Web site International Monetary Fund Web Sites Debt Initiative for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), IMF
Official IMF web site for the Initiative. Web Site Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI)
Provides for 100 percent debt relief from three multilateral institutions to a group of low-income countries. Intends to help these countries advance toward the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are focused on reducing poverty by half by 2015. Web site Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)
IMF's low-interest lending facility for low-income countries. PRGF-supported programs are underpinned by comprehensive country-owned poverty reduction strategies. Web site World Economic Outlook Reports and Database
Published twice a year, this report presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Presents an overview of the world economy; considers issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and addresses topics of pressing current interest. The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database, created during the biannual WEO exercise, presents selected series from the publication in a database format. Web site United Nations Web Sites Millennium Development Goals Web site (United Nations)
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from reducing extreme poverty by half to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015, which were agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. Web site The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Millennium Development Goals Web site
Link to the UNDP's MDG web site. Web Site The United Nations Millennium Project Web Site
Project commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. Headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, this independent advisory body and presented its final recommendations, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals to the Secretary-General in January 2005. Web site contains report and its background material, including in-depth reports of the 10 task forces covering all MDGs. Web Site United Nations Convention against Corruption
Link to the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Web Site Development Assistance Committee/OECD Web Sites Development Assistance Committee (DAC), OECD
Principal body through which the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) deals with issues related to co-operation with developing countries. Publishes statistics and reports on aid and other resource flows to developing countries and countries in transition and related matters, based principally on reporting by DAC members. Web Site DAC Evaluation Network
This network brings together representatives from thirty bilateral and multilateral development agencies who work together on improving evaluation for more effective development assistance. Web Site DAC-OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and Donor Practices (Aid Harmonization & Alignment)
This Working Party was set up in May 2003 in the context of the international consensus reached at Monterrey on the actions needed to promote a global partnership for development and accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Information on the harmonization of operational development policies, procedures, and practices—including all documents from Rome and Paris High Level Forums and related links relevant global activities. Also hosts the Country Implementation Tracking Tool (CITT), an updated catalog of detailed information on country-level harmonization initiatives and activities. Web Site OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
Link to the related OECD web site. Web site Other Multilateral/Bilateral Development Agencies Multilateral and Bilateral Development Agencies
Links to the Web sites of the Multilateral and Bilateral Development Agencies. Web site WTO/Trade Web Sites Doha Development Agenda Trade Capacity Building Database (TCBDB)
Established by the WTO and the OECD to provide information on trade-related technical assistance and capacity building projects. Covers national and regional projects. Data is reported from bilateral donors and multilateral/regional Agencies. Web site World Trade Organization (WTO)
Link to the web site of the WTO. Web site Partnership and Initiative Web sites
World Bank's Partnerships at Work. Web site Education for All - Fast-track Initiative (FTI)
Global partnership between donor and developing countries to ensure accelerated progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. Web site Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Supports improved governance in resource-rich countries through the full publication and verification of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas and mining. Web site Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
A private and public sector alliance dedicated to ensuring that all children have equal access to vaccines to prevent illness and death from vaccine-preventable illnesses. Web site Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, to dramatically increase resources to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Web site Global Development Learning Network (GDN)
Global network of research and policy institutes working together to address the problems of national and regional development. Web site Kimberley Process
Joint government, international diamond industry and civil society initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds. Web site PEFA - Public Expenditure & Financial Accountability
Partnership between the World Bank, the European Commission, the UK's Department for International Development, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Monetary Fund and the Strategic Partnership with Africa, which aims to support integrated and harmonized approaches to assessment and reform in the field of public expenditure, procurement and financial accountability. Web site U4 - Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
Web-based resource centre established by the Utstein Group to strengthen their partnership for international development. Web site NGO and Think Tank Web Sites Center for Global Development (CGD)
Independent, not-for-profit think tank conducting research and analysis on a wide range of topics related to how rich country policies impact people in the developing world. These include aid effectiveness, education, globalization, health, migration, and trade. Web site Global Integrity
Independent think tank that publishes the Global Integrity Index and the Global Integrity Reports. Web site Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Web site The Publish What You Pay Campaign
Coalition of over 280 NGOs worldwide that calls for the mandatory disclosure of the payments made by oil, gas and mining companies’ to all governments for the extraction of natural resources. Web site Transparency International Web Site
Non-governmental organization devoted to combating corruption brings civil society, business, and governments together in a powerful global coalition. Links to the TI’s annual corruption reports; TI surveys and indices; research and more. Web site Africa-Specific Web Sites Commission for Africa
Permanent archive of the work of the Commission for Africa, launched by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in February 2004. Includes the Commission report "Our Common Interest," publiched March 2005, and other materials associated with the Commission. Web Site New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
Link to the web site of NEPAD; a holistic, comprehensive integrated strategic framework for the socio-economic development of Africa. Web Site Other Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
The third consecutive worldwide research project initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide data and analysis on the population, health, and nutrition of women and children in developing countries. Demographic and Health Surveys provide national and sub-national data on family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infections, infectious diseases, reproductive health and nutrition. Web site
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