The Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary developed by World Bank Group to describe its development activities. It includes concepts and terms used to describe World Bank Group’s social and economic development knowledge domains and areas of expertise. It is a tool used to support rich concept level searching, index all kinds of content, using either automated or manual approaches, and recommend related term searches to users.

The Thesaurus is multidisciplinary in scope. Among the subjects covered are: Agriculture, Communities and Human Settlements, Culture, Education, Energy, Environment, Financial Sector Development, Gender, Governance, Health, Nutrition and Population, Industry, Information and Communication Technologies, Infrastructure , International Economics and Trade, Law, Macroeconomics and Economic Growth, Private Sector Development, Public Sector Development, Rural Development, Social Development, Transport, Urban Development, Water Resources. The Thesaurus is comprised of three basic elements: topical categories, terms, and semantic relationships among terms.

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The World Bank Thesaurus contains 537,296 terms in English with 25% of these terms being relationed.
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