SPOTLIGHTS

Improving Effectiveness & Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) The World Bank Group's support for HNP has been sustained since 1997— $17 billion in country-level support by the World Bank and $873 million in private health and pharmaceutical investments by the IFC, through mid-2008. This report evaluates the Bank Group's support for HNP...More »

The World Bank Group Guarantee Instruments 1990- 2007 Regulatory and contractual risks have inhibited investments in many parts of the developing world. A core objective of the WBG has been to support flow of private investment for development; guarantees have been among the instruments used to pursue this objective. More »

Climate Change and the World Bank Group Climate change threatens to derail development, even as development pumps ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere already polluted with two centuries of Western emissions. The World Bank must confront these entangled threats in helping its clients to carve out a sustainable growth path. More »

Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2008: Shared Global Challenges For the World Bank and its partners, the ever-present test is to deliver results-to lift people out of poverty and promote sustainable development. Achieving such success in any individual country is increasingly intertwined with making progress on shared global challenges. More »