TY - BOOK TI - A guide to the World Bank SN - 9780821353448 U1 - 332.1532 PY - 2003/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - World Bank, KW - World Bank Group KW - Developing countries - Economic conditions N1 - Includes index; How the world bank group is organized -- Governance of the world bank group -- The five world bank group institutions -- Organizing principles -- Relationship to the IMF and the United Nations -- How the world bank group operates -- Strategies -- Policies and procedures -- The bank group's finances -- Products and services -- World bank project cycle -- IFC project cycle -- Partnerships -- Staff, consultants, and vendors -- World bank group countries and regions -- Member countries -- Africa (sub-Saharan) -- East Asia and the Pacific -- South Asia -- Europe and Central Asia -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- Topics in development -- Agriculture and rural development -- Aid effectiveness -- Combating corruption -- Conflict prevention and reconstruction -- Debt relief -- Economic research and data -- Education -- Empowerment and participation -- Energy and mining -- Environment -- Financial sector -- Gender -- Globalization -- Governance and the public sector -- Health, nutrition, and population -- Indigenous peoples -- Information and communication technologies -- Infrastructure -- Labor and social protection -- Law and justice -- Poverty -- Private sector development -- Social development -- Sustainable development -- Trade -- Transportation -- Urban development -- Water N2 - This work is a guide to the activities of the World Bank Group, especially the information resources that the Bank Group organizations generate. It recognizes the extensiveness of the Bank Group's Internet resources, and is designed to document and complement them ER -