Knowledge Development Center
Research Tools for Developmental Issues
Welcome to the World Bank e-Library, an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,500 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700 Policy Research Working Papers (What are Policy Research Working Papers?) ( Search Working Papers), plus each new book and paper as they are published.
World Development Indicators (WDI)
World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development.
Global Development Finance (GDF)
Global Development Finance 2008, Volume II: Summary and Country Tables (GDF) is the sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries on a loan-by-loan basis. This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low-and middle-income countries in both electronic and print formats. Data are shown for 134 individual countries that report tothe World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS). These countries report to the DRS under Operational Policy 14.10 mandate of the World Bank. Global Development Finance 2008, Volume I contains analytical part of the data.
Global Economic Prospects (GEM)
GEM is a new World Bank online subscription service, updated daily, providing analysis of current economic trends, economic and financial data indicators, and an extensive database.
