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Publié le | 27 juin 2007 |
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A guide to
The World Bank
SECOND EDITIONA guide to
TheWorld BankA guide to
TheWorld Bank
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guide to the World Bank. — 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8213-6694-3 — ISBN 978-0-8213-6695-0 (electronic)
1. World Bank Group. 2. Developing countries—Economic conditions 3. Economic
assistance. I. World Bank.
HG3881.5.W57G853 2007
332.1'532—dc22
2007019884CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
The World Bank Group Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 How the World Bank Group Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Governance of the World Bank Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Five World Bank Group Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Organizing Principles within the World Bank Group . . . . . . . 27
Relationship to the IMF and the UN40
2 How the World Bank Group Operates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Policies and Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Bank Group’s Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Financial Products and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Knowledge Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
World Bank Project Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
IFC Project Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Partnerships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Staff, Consultants, and Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3 World Bank Group Countries and Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Member Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Africa (Sub-Saharan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
East Asia and the Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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Europe and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Middle East and North Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4 Topics in Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Agriculture and Rural Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Aid Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Combating Corruption143
Conflict Prevention and Fragile States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Debt Relief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Economic Research and Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Education149
Empowerment and Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Energy and Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Financial Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Gender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Globalization160
Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Health, Nutrition, and Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Indigenous Peoples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Information and Communication Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Infrastructure168
Labor and Social Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Law, Regulation, and the Judiciary172
Manufacturing and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Poverty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Private Sector Development176
Social Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Sustainable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Urban Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Water185
APPENDIXES
A. Contacting the World Bank Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Headquarters and General Inquiries191
Media Relations, News, and Public Affairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Public Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193viiContents
B. Timeline of World Bank Group History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
C. Presidents of the World Bank Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
D. Country Membership in World Bank Group Institutions . . . . . . . . 205
E. Constituencies of the Executive Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
F. Additional Country Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Boxes
1 The Five World Bank Group Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 Millennium Development Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 World Bank Group President Rober B. Zoellick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.2 Origin of the Term “World Bank” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3 IBRD Basic Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.4 IDA Basic Facts . .