The World Bank offers a wide variety of material on their operations. It includes information on current events (such as press releases and issues of the World Bank News), country and project information. In this section, the Public Information Center offers Staff Appraisal Reports (SARs), Country Economic and Sector Work (CESW) reports, Sectoral Policy Papers, Environmental Data Sheets, National Environmental Action Plans (EAPs), evaluation reports from the Operations Evaluation Department Project Information Documents, IFC Environmental Documents, IDA10 Reviews, and Global Environmental Facility Project Documents). There is also sectorial information, which includes the Vice Presidency for Financial and Private Sector Development (FPD), the Vice Presidency for Human Resources Development and Operations Policy (HRO) and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). Another section is devoted to information on World Bank Publications (including ordering information).
There is also substantial information on the research projects of the bank. These include the Economic Growth Project (described elsewhere in this guide), and the Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) which offers some on-line data from this project and information on how to obtain it off-line. There is also the Commodity Policy and Analysis Unit, which maintains an on-line version of the "Pink Sheet" on commodity prices, and the Information Bank on African Development Studies (IBADS), which has a number of newsletters and other material. There is also material from the International Trade Division, the Electronic Media Center, the CGIAR Secretariat, and the Economic Development Institute (EDI).
One can find email address of Bank employees by sending mail to services@worldbank.org with "Directory Whois Lastname" or "Directory Whois FirstName Lastname" in the body of the email.
Working with CIESIN (the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network) the World Bank's Social Indicators of Development and Social Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE) have been made available. They are described separately, as is their World Growth Project, which has a substantial amount of international data.
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