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The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030: end extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day to no more than 3%; promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country. According to its Articles of Agreement all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of capital investment.

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- Africa Development Indicators, 2012
  
  November 2012
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 18 November, 2012
  
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  Africa Development Indicators (ADI) provides the most detailed collection of development data on Africa.
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- Health Nutrition and Population Statistics
  
  September 2018
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 03 October, 2018
  
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  Health Nutrition and Population Statistics database provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international and national sources. Themes include global surgery, health financing, HIV/AIDS, immunization, infectious diseases, medical resources and usage, noncommunicable diseases, nutrition, population dynamics, reproductive health, universal health coverage, and water and sanitation.
- Health Nutrition and Population Statistics (World Bank), September 2014
  
  September 2014
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 22 September, 2014
  
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  The World Bank Health Nutrition and Population Statistics Provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources. Themes include population dynamics, nutrition, reproductive health, health financing, medical resources and usage, immunization, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, DALY, population projections and lending. HNPStats also includes health, nutrition and population statistics by wealth quintiles.
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- Millennium Development Goals
  
  October 2016
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 17 November, 2016
  
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  Relevant indicators drawn from the World Development Indicators, reorganized according to the goals and targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvements in people's lives by the year 2015: they establish targets and yardsticks for measuring development results. Gender Parity Index (GPI)= Value of indicator for Girls/ Value of indicator for Boys. For e.g GPI=School enrolment for Girls/School enrolment for Boys. A value of less than one indicates differences in favor of boys, whereas a value near one (1) indicates that parity has been more or less achieved. The greater the deviation from 1 greater the disparity is.
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- Subnational Malnutrition Database
  
  July 2014
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Balaji S
  
  Accessed On: 25 November, 2014
  
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  This dataset provides Subnational estimates of child malnutrition (prevalence for stunting, underweight, overweight, wasting and severe wasting indicators) using available data up to 2012.
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- World Report on Disability, 2014
  
  October 2013
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Balaji S
  
  Accessed On: 24 November, 2014
  
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  Data cited at: The World Bank https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/ Topic: World Report On Disability Publication: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-report-disability License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This dataset provides the World report on disability, Technical appendix A: Estimates of disability prevalence (%) and of years of health lost due to disability (YLD), by country

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