The World Bank’s research is intended to address critical
issues and problems facing member governments in developing
and transition economies: How can the governments
of the poorest countries generate enough revenue
to provide the education and health services essential to
reducing poverty and promoting growth and development?
How can poor countries attract investors to build
the infrastructure their economies need? How can they
develop systems to bring clean water to the 2 billion
people without it today? How can they train teachers and
bring to class the 115 million children who have not yet
received any education? And how can rich countries be
persuaded to lower market barriers, helping to reverse the
decline in export prices for poor countries that has left them
earning less from trade today than in the 1970s?