The World Bank Policy on Access to Information, launched on July 1, 2010 is a landmark disclosure policy adopted by the World Bank. Information and knowledge is publicly available also through numerous related World Bank initiatives such as Open Data, Open knowledge Repository and Open Finances.
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The new Finances One digital platform offers public financial data and portfolio information from across all World Bank Group entities in one place. in an accessible format. It allows users to explore, analyze, share, and download data, with API access available for developers.
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April 10, 2023 — Visualize the growth in World Bank Group country membership since its initial members joined in 1945 and check historical profiles of every country that has been a member of the WBG, past or present. These profiles detail the institution's work with each country and links to relevant historical resources.
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June 25, 2021 — The World Bank opened its doors on June 25, 1946, nearly 2 years after its Articles of Agreement had been drafted at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire. The Second World War ended a year before the opening day, and the devastation was still felt: 60 million people had died and millions more were
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November 19, 2020 — Two years ago, my colleagues Jeanne Kramer-Smyth and April Miller introduced the World Bank Group (WBG) Archives’ efforts to preserve digital records, and last year my colleagues Shiri Alon and Daniele Balduzzi wrote about how we’re defining the digital
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To mark the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the Bank’s Articles of Agreement, the WBG Archives is launching several new products, the first of which is a new video titled “Uncover the Treasures of the World Bank Group Archives” (below).
Since April 2014, the World Bank has been disclosing, on a monthly basis, summaries of the public access requests submitted by the public, when permission to disclose was granted by the requesters.
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