It has been approximately a year since the Devex team began extracting, cleaning, and uploading pipeline data from the World Bank’s Monthly Operational Summaries, or MOS, to our funding database.
Analyzing the latest data 12 months on, what have we learned? And what insights can the data give us into the priorities discussed at last month’s World Bank Spring Meetings?
As of the release of the March MOS, the World Bank pipeline contained 1,073 projects — loans, credits, and grants currently being prepared or considered by the bank and its beneficiary governments. The projects’ forecast budgets totaled $125 billion, of which $102 billion are to be contributed by the International Development Association, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. The remainder is to be contributed by third parties, mostly other donor institutions or beneficiary governments. This time last year, those figures were slightly lower: 998 projects worth $106 billion, $87 billion of which was to be contributed by the bank.