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Applications open for third round of funding for collaborative data innovation projects

Photo Credit: The Crowd and The Cloud [[tweetable]]The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the World Bank Development Data Group are pleased to announce that applications are…

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Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Disaster Risk Management, Education

The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development

Download PDF (30Mb) / View Online “The World Bank is one of the world’s largest producers of development data and research. But our responsibility does not stop with making these global public…

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Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Disaster Risk Management, Education

Q1 2018 update of World Development Indicators available

The World Development Indicators database has been updated. This is a regular quarterly update to 1, 600 indicators and includes both new indicators and updates to existing indicators.  This…

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Announcing Funding for 12 Development Data Innovation Projects

We’re pleased to announce support for 12 projects which seek to improve the way development data are produced, managed, and used. They bring together diverse teams of collaborators from around the…

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Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Disaster Risk Management, Energy

International Debt Statistics 2018 shows BRICs doubled bilateral lending commitments to low-income countries in 2016 to $84 billion

The 2018 edition of International Debt Statistics (IDS) has just been published. IDS 2018 presents statistics and analysis on the external debt and financial flows (debt and equity) of the world’s…

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Debt, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector