Book Distributors

To provide efficient service at lower prices, the World Bank establishes special local pricing agreements with distributors in many countries at significant discounts. For more information, please contact any of our local distributors.

 Local Book Distributors

e-PIC

ePIC is the new virtual catalog of the World Bank. Here you can find information on development data, reports, and World Bank activities available at Public Information Centers around the globe.

  e-PIC

Databases

Go to the nearest KDC in your area to access the following databases:

e-Library: The World Bank e-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 3,000 World Bank documents. Go to the neareast KDC in your area to access the e-Libray.

World Development Indicators: WDI Online is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. It includes information about People, Environment, Economy, and States and Markets. 

Global Development Finance: GDF Online offers external debt and financial flow data for 136 countries. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.

Global Economic Monitor: GEM is a new World Bank online subscription service, updated daily, providing analysis of current economic trends, economic and financial data indicators, and an extensive database.

B-SPAN

B-SPAN is a webcasting service that presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues via streaming video. B-SPAN streams these events on the Internet, archives them on the B-SPAN web site, offers them in their original unedited format, and provides indexing for quick access to specific speakers.

 Featured B-SPAN Webcasts

InfoShop

The InfoShop is the World Bank's public information center and development bookstore located in Washington, D.C.

The InfoShop offers various facilities ranging from free information in the form of reports and documents to products such as books, publications and souvenirs. It carries publications from a variety of publishers—including international and nongovernmental organizations. Several computers in the InfoShop allow public access to the World Bank’s web site.

 InfoShop