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Financial Crisis and Foreign Direct Investment
A change in lending behavior and credit risk reassessment is affecting foreign direct investment. MIGA tackles declining FDI levels and growth prospects in vulnerable economies.
Debarment: Philippines Roads Project
World Bank debars seven firms and one individual for engaging in collusive practices under a major Bank-financed roads project in the Philippines.
30 Years of Development Economics
The World Development Report has been encapsulating the Bank’s knowledge of and policy recommendations on key global development trends for three decades.
Road Deaths on the Rise
Traffic accidents pose an increasingly serious threat in developing countries.
Jan 8, 2009—Twenty-eight countries receive $856 million; $304 million more earmarked for programs in nine countries.
"We slipped and slid our way to see the customary forest which the village's traditional leaders manage... and on the way saw the coffee groves."
Gabon: National Parks
Conserving and managing biodiversity in the country's 13 national parks.
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