The process of getting a World Bank project to completion involves a lot of steps before legal agreements are signed and a delivery agent is approved.
Currently, the bank has 408 projects in its portfolio that are in these early pipeline stages, awaiting final approval. These projects, according to the data available, have a cumulative project cost of $287.7 billion.
Of these projects, 202 have been in the pipeline for over a year and were included in an analysis conducted by Devex last year. Another 206 new projects have been added to the pipeline in the last 12 months. Some 158 of these new projects do not have any indicated project cost, but those that do are worth almost $226 billion.