World Bank

This is a joint post with Charles Kenny Zambia and Ghana are the 27th and 28th countries the World Bank has reclassified as middle-income since the year 2000 Doctors perform cataract surgery at the Lusaka Eye Hospital in Zambia. It's inexpensive and it changes people's lives in...

This is a joint post with Michele de Nevers. The World Bank’s expanding public information mandate is the focus of Stephanie Strom’s excellent article in Saturday’s New York Times. During Robert Zoellick’s tenure as the Bank’s president, he has promoted free public access to databases that f...

This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz The World Bank’s Shanta Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale in yesterday’s Guardian Poverty Matters blog write: Except for Botswana, the track record of Africa's mineral and hydrocarbon exporters is sobering. While Africa's central banks are tod...