Which World Bank Reports Are Widely Read?

Doemeland, Doerte ; Trevino, James

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO INFORMATION;    ACRONYMS;    ADVISORY SERVICES;    ARTICLE;    ARTICLES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-6851
RP-ID  :  WPS6851

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Knowledge is central to development. TheWorld Bank invests about one-quarter of its budget forcountry services in knowledge products. Still, there islittle research about the demand for these knowledgeproducts and how internal knowledge flows affect theirdemand. About 49 percent of the World Bank's policyreports, which are published Economic and Sector Work orTechnical Assistance reports, have the stated objective ofinforming the public debate or influencing the developmentcommunity. This study uses information on downloads andcitations to assesses whether policy reports meet thisobjective. About 13 percent of policy reports weredownloaded at least 250 times while more than 31 percent ofpolicy reports are never downloaded. Almost 87 percent ofpolicy reports were never cited.More expensive, complex,multi-sector, core diagnostics reports on middle-incomecountries with larger populations tend to be downloaded morefrequently. Multi-sector reports also tend to be cited morefrequently. Internal knowledge sharing matters as crosssupport provided by the World Bank's ResearchDepartment consistently increases downloads and citations.