"The Asian Development Bank aims for an Asia and Pacific free from poverty. Approximately 1.8 billion people in the region are poor and unable to access essential goods, services, assets and opportunities to which every human is entitled."
Launched in April 2012, the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository builds on the Bank's effoprs to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available as possible. The research is Open Access and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) copyright license..
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form