Book Repository

This Repository is a searchable database of all books produced by alumni in their personal capacity, after they retired from the World Bank Group. The Repository is designed to enhance our members’ awareness of books published by fellow retirees and provide easy access to them. It includes live links and information on books by retirees on any topic, in any genre, and any language. The Repository is limited to books that (1) are published after retirement from the WBG; (2) are not part of a consultancy or work assignment at another MDB or IFI; and (3) are publicly available as a free download, or at cost.

To add books to the Repository send an email to 1818Society@wbgalumni.org with information about the book and the web link where it can be found.

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Recent Additions

Income Distribution, Economic Growth and Unemployment

Araujo, Jorge Thompson, with João Ricardo Faria, and João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira (eds), 2025

This timely book addresses the critical issues of rising ine...

From Lumberjills to Wooden Wonders: A miscellany of fascinating facts about trees

Grut, Mikael, 2018

This is an alphabetised offbeat miscellany of short entries,...

Gospel For Christian Non-Believers

Grut, Mikael, 2016

The Gospels have much to offer, not only to those who believ...

Olof Wijk's North American Diary of 1829

Grut, Mikael, 2019

This book is about the travels and observations of a Swedish...

Coming Down From The Mountain: An Autobiography

Ayub, Mahmood Ali, 2025

The book, entitled “Coming down from the Mountain: An Auto...

The World Bank and the Gods of Lending

Berkman, Steve, 2008

Uncovering the World Bank’s loan programs in the developin...