The World Bank eLibrary is the World Bank’s subscription-based collection of nearly 6,000 books, reports, journals, and working papers including:

• Development Outreach, World Bank Economic Review and World Bank Research Observer journal articles published since 1996
  
• Development Economics (DEC) policy research working papers published since 1995
  
• e-books and reports dating as far as the 1970’s (in the case of the World Development Reports), plus
  
• all new formal publications upon release. 
  

 eLibrary contains only the final, peer-reviewed versions of the Bank’s formal publications.

All content may be viewed online and downloaded free of DRM (with the exception of a watermark).
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