Databases & E-Reference Materials

Open Finances makes World Bank’s financials openly available for exploration. The platform offers advanced tools to export, download, and customize financial data, and to create unique visualizations and filtered views. Datasets include loans and credits, procurement, administrative budgets, financial statements, shareholder equity, and more.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Resources are organized by collection and include books, journal articles, technical papers, country strategy documents, working papers, economic and sector work studies, and speeches. Materials are in English, with over 1000 accompanying documents in other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Bosnian, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Spanish, and more. 

Explore the World Bank's low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries. These support a wide array of investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. Projects are browsable by sector, theme, and country.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies provides comprehensive economic development information about foreign companies.

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) is a platform for financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy databases accessible through a single interface. WRDS also provides access to Preqin, the home of alternative assets data, with almost two decades of unrivaled data coverage.

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