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World Bank apps

Did you know that the World Bank offers lots of smart phone/iPad apps that you can use?

Here are three apps that we believe might be useful to you:

With the World Bank InfoFinder app you can explore documents filtered by language, country, region and topic. You can also bookmark and share document webpages and connect with the Bank's website.  

The World Development Report 2013 app helps users find the major discussions, tables, and figures throughout the report.  Search by key message, region, topic, and keyword. This app also includes a complete PDF of the WDR 2013 for more traditional reading. 

The Doing Business at a Glance 2013 app presents rankings and quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights across 185 economies with business reform summaries for each economy.

See all of the apps provided by the World Bank here.

World Bank Resources available online at FAO

The World Bank has many online services available to provide information on the work they are doing as well as from the publications they produce.  Please see the following list with links to these sources:

World Bank eLibrary via: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/
World Bank Open Data Portal: http://data.worldbank.org/      
eAtlas of Global Development website: http://www.app.collinsindicate.com/worldbankatlas-global/en
eAtlas of the Millennium Development Goals: http://www.app.collinsindicate.com/mdg/en
The Complete World Development Report Online: http://www.wdronline.worldbank.org/
Free World Bank Aps: http://publications.worldbank.org/index.php?main_page=page&id=16
Online eCommerce store (for books): http://publications.worldbank.org/



Complete World Development Report Online - More free stuff!

The library was investigating a trial of the World Bank's Complete World Development Report Online.

This resource includes every page of every World Development Report published by the World Bank since the first report was released in 1978. You can search across reports, browsing by title or subject, or refer to the World Development background papers back to 2005.

While our consortium was negotiating the trial, the World Bank decided to provide access to the report free of charge, as part of the new open agenda at the World Bank.

Great news!

The World Bank Annual Report 2008

The full text of this publication is available to FAO staff members via access to the World Bank E-Library:

The 2008 Annual Report focuses on the dire impact on developing countries of soaring food and commodity prices, and the world financial debacle. Other features include an update on midpoint progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, and discussion by the President of his six strategic goals: focus on the poorest countries, particularly in Africa; fragile and post-conflict states; middle-income countries; global and regional public goods; expanding opportunity for the Arab world; and knowledge and learning.

Innovative Financing for Development -- E book

The full text of this publication is available to FAO staff members via access to the World Bank E-Library:

Innovative Financing for Development

This book argues that poor countries need additional, cross-border capital channeled to the private sector for employment generation, growth, and poverty reduction. For that, innovative financing mechanisms are necessary. The volume brings together various market-based innovative methods of raising development finance including securitization of future flow receivables, diaspora bonds, and the role of shadow sovereign ratings in facilitating access to international capital markets.

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008 -- E book

The full text of this publication is available to FAO staff members via access to the World Bank E-Library.

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008, Regional

This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, think tanks, NGOs, and international institutions. These papers concern issues such as: Higher Education and International Migration in Asia: Brain Circulation; Interfaces in Higher Education: Two Sector in Sync?; Financing Higher Education: Lessons from developed economies, options for developing economies; Well-springs of Modern Economic Growth: Higher Education, Innovation and Local Economic Development; Higher Education, Innovation, and Economic Development; Higher Education and the Labour Market in India.

Proceedings from the "Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development" conference-- E-book

The full text of this publication is available to FAO staff members via access to the World Bank E-Library.

Agriculture and Development.  Proceedings from the "Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development" conference.  (held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008).

Global Monitoring Report 2008

The full text of this publication is available to FAO staff members via access to the World Bank E-Library.

Abstract:  Global Monitoring Report 2008, the fifth in an annual series, is essential reading for those who wish to follow the global development agenda and debate in 2008. The year marks the midpoint toward the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the Bali climate change conference in December 2007. The report spans this agenda. It provides a comprehensive assessment of progress toward the MDGs and related policies and actions. It addresses the challenge of climate change and environmental sustainability and assesses its implications for development.The report's assessment of MDGs at midpoint presents a mixed picture, one of both significant progress and formidable challenges.

World Bank: The Little Book on External Debt 2008

New publication available to FAO staff members via library subscription to the World Bank E-Library:

Abstract: The Little Data Book on External Debt provides a quick reference for users interested in external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, and the currency composition of long-term debt for all countries reporting through the Debtor Reporting system. A pocket edition of the Global Development Finance 2008, Volume II: Summary and Country Tables, it contains statistical tables for 135 countries as well as summary tables for regional and income groups.

View the publication here.

Global Economic Prospects 2008

New publication available to FAO staff members via library subscription to the World Bank E-Library:

Abstract: Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s. It reveals both encouraging and cautionary trends. On the one hand, the pace of technological progress in developing countries has been much faster than in high-income countries-reflecting increased exposure to foreign technology.On the other hand, the technology gap remains large, and the domestic factors that determine how quickly technologies spread within developing countries often stymie progress, especially among low-income countries.

Rapid technological progress in developing countries has been central to the reduction of poverty in recent decades. While the integration of global markets has played and will continue to play a key role in this, future success will increasingly depend on strengthening technical competencies and the business environment for innovative firms in developing countries.