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The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information

III. Information Available from the Bank [4]

 
B.  Research and Databases

53.               Economic and social data on member countries are published in the Bank’s Annual Report and in the World Development Report, both of which are publicly available.  They include basic population and income data, data on consumption and investment, and data on flows of public external capital and debt and debt-service ratios.  Regional and global aggregates of country economic data, primary commodity trade statistics, and historical commodity price series are also publicly available.

Economic Analysis

54.               Economic analysis supporting a research project which is factual in nature and does not relate directly to the Bank's decision making process may be made available to interested parties.

Research

55.               The Annual Index of Publications and the bimonthly Publications Update, issued by the Bank’s Office of the Publisher, which list the Bank's published research output, are publicly available.

External Debt Data

56.               Data on external debt, including aggregate data on public and publicly guaranteed medium- and long-term debt and medium-term private non-guaranteed debt (when reported by the member country), outstanding debt, undisbursed amounts, commitments, disbursements, principal and interest repayments, and average terms by type of credit are included in the publication Global Development Finance, which is publicly available.

57.               Aggregate estimates of private non-guaranteed debt (other than those reported by member countries), short-term loans, and future borrowing and debt-service streams are publicly available.

 

 
 

[4] The information to be provided under this Part III is subject to the provisions of Part IV of this statement.  

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