Practical tools, free and anonymous
Planning a return, a partnership or an investment starts with good information. These tools run in your browser, need no account and keep nothing about you.
Country Snapshot
Choose a country and see, on one page, the facts that matter when you plan: today's exchange rate, local time, languages, calling code, entry rules for different passports and the World Bank's key figures. Countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia are one click away.
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Investor Research Desk
For partners, funders and ministries: compare up to four countries over ten years of World Bank data — growth, inflation, remittances, unemployment, access to finance — and export the table. It is the evidence base behind the anchor sectors we choose in each country.
Open the Research Desk
Translator & QR Kit
Translate a short notice into 14 languages, then turn a web page, a contact card, a Wi-Fi network or a payment link into a printable QR code. Made for the first weeks of a new business: the shop sign, the menu, the invoice.
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Anonymous pathway calculator
Your training track, support package and loan range in under a minute — nothing saved.
The white paper
The model, the economics and the safeguards (PDF).
The policy brief
The same argument on two pages (PDF).