October 2018 update: What does the World Bank's latest pipeline data tell us?

It has been approximately two years 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 20 months on, what have we learned? And what insights can the data give us into the priorities of the bank as we approach 2019?

As of the release of the October 2018 MOS, the World Bank pipeline contained 1,135 projects — loans, credits, and grants currently being prepared or considered by the bank and its beneficiary governments. The forecasted budgets for the projects totaled $135 billion, of which $111 billion are to be contributed by the International Development Association, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

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