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Library Directory: World Bank Country Office PIC/Libraries

Please note: listings marked [external] are Public Information Centers (PICs) operated by an external agency. These sites are listed here for the convenience of people looking for public World Bank information, but they are not members of The Library Network.

Please e-mail any corrections
to this list to Elena Zimina

Africa Region: For full details on address and hours of operation at a Public Information Center, please see http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop/afric.htm
Angola (Luanda):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Ana Maria Carvalho

Benin (Cotonou):
Benin PIC
Contact: Nadiath Allake Dende

Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou):
Country OfficePIC/Library
Contact: Lionel F. Yaro

Burundi (Bujumbura):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Renata Ntabindi

Cameroon (Yaounde):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Hélène Pieume

Chad (N'Djamena):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Grace Aguna Deciat

Congo (Brazzaville):
Country OfficePIC/Library
Contact: Clementine Maoungou

Cote D'Ivoire (Abidjan):
Centre d'Information du Public
Contact: Bakary Sanogo

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa-Gombe):
Centre d'Information du Public
Contact: Bob Bobutaka Bateko

Eritrea (Asmara):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Sofia Woldu

Ethiopia (Addis Ababa):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Shimekit Wolde Aregay

Gabon (Libreville):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Patrice Etong-Oveng

Ghana (Accra):
Public Information Centre
Contact: Kennedy Fosu

Guinea (Conakry):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Pepe Gnekoyamou

Kenya (Nairobi):
Information Center
Contact: Keziah Muthoni Muthembwa

Madagascar (Antananarivo):
Centre d'Information du Public
Contact: Voahangy Rakotoarinjara

Malawi (Lilongwe):
Country Office Library/PIC
Contact: Zeria Banda

Mali (Bamako):
Country Office Library
Contact: Amidou Dembele

Mauritania (Nouakchott):
Centre de Documentation
Contact: Ba Oumar Abdoulaye

Mozambique (Maputo):
Country Office Library
Contact: Abel Francisco Otacala

Niger (Niamey):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Paul Dossou-Yovo

Nigeria (Abuja):
Country Office Library
Contact: Charles Chukwuemeka Onyekatu

Nigeria (Lagos):
Country Office Library
Contact: Justina Edomor Eimunjeze

Rwanda (Kigali):
Public Information Center
Contact: Thérèse Nibarere

Senegal (Dakar):
Centre d'Information et de Docementation
Contact: Sambagor Gueye

Sierra Leone (Freetown):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Mohamed Sidie Sherif

South Africa (Pretoria):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Mmenyane Seoposengwe

Tanzania (Dar-es-Salaam):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Rosalie Ferrao

Togo (Lome):
Country Office Library
Contact: Sylvie Nenonene

Uganda (Kampala):
Public Information Centre
Contact: Carol Evelyn Wasswa

Zambia (Lusaka):
Country Office Public Information Center
Contact: Liseli Simasiku-Sikota

Zimbabwe (Harare):
Harare World Bank Resident Mission Library
Contact: Margaret Matewa



East Asia & Pacific Region: For full details on address and hours of operation at a Public Information Center, please see http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop/eap.htm
China (Beijing):
Public Information Center
Contact: Ying Yu

Indonesia (Jakarta):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Wiwiek Sonda

Lao PDR (Vientiane):
Library/Public Information Center
Contact: Malarak Souksavat

Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Bolormaa Gurjav

Philippines (Pasig City):
Knowledge for Development Center
Contact: Moira Enerva

Thailand (Bangkok):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Buntarika Sangarun

Timor-Leste (Dili):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Luis de Sousa Sequeira

Vietnam (Hanoi):
Vietnam Development Information Center
Contact: Nha Thi Vu



Europe & Central Asia Region: For full details on address and hours of operation at a Public Information Center, please see http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop/eca.htm
Albania (Tirana):
Country Office Library
Contact: Kozeta Haxhiaj

Republic of Azerbaijan (Baku):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Sabina Jafarova

Belarus (Minsk):
Country Office Library
Contact: Irina Oleinik

Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Sanja Olovcic

Bulgaria (Sofia):
Country Office Library
Contact: Ognian Vesselinov Zlatev

Central Asia (Almaty, Kazakhstan):
Regional Office PIC/Library
Contact: Kubat Sydykov

Croatia (Zagreb):
Country Office Public Information Center
Contact: Mirjana Milic

Georgia (Tbilisi):
Country Office Library
Contact: Maia Duishvili

Kazakhstan (Astana):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Oxana Guzeeva

Kyrgyz Republic (Bishkek):
Country Office Library
Contact: Natalya Iosipenko

Latvia (Riga):
Country Office Library/PIC
Contact: Astrida Fridmane

Lithuania (Vilnius):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Patricija Sruogiene

Macedonia (Skopje):
Country Office Library
Contact: Denis Boskovski

Moldova (Chisinau):
Country Office Library
Contact: Elena Sosnovschi

Poland (Warsaw):
Information Center of the World Bank
Contact: Malgorzata Szczycinska

Romania (Bucharest):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Ana Ilinca Macri

Russian Federation (Moscow):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Artem Kolesnikov

Serbia & Montenegro (Belgrade):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Mirjana Popovic

Tajikistan (Dushanbe):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Dilya Zoirova

Turkey (Ankara):
Country Office Library
Contact: Arsev Umur Aydinoglu

Ukraine (Kiev):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Yulia Yurova

Uzbekistan (Tashkent):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Matluba Mukhamedova



Latin America & Caribbean Region: For full details on address and hours of operation at a Public Information Center, please see http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop/lac.htm
Argentina (Buenos Aires):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Susana Maria Guppy

Bolivia (La Paz):
Centro de Informacion al Publico - Banco Mundial
Contact: Rafael Jose Archondo

Brazil (Brasilia):
Country Office Library
Contact: Vania Amadeu

Colombia (Bogota):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Gabriela Aguilar

Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Alejandra De La Paz Melo

Ecuador (Quito):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Paola Vallejo

Guatemala (Guatemala City):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Carmen Elena Gadala-Maria

Honduras (Tegucigalpa):
Centro de Informacion para el Desarrollo de Honduras (CIDH)/Country Office PIC
Contact: Maria Amalia San Martin

Mexico (Mexico City):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Mireya Olivas

Nicaragua (Managua):
Centro de Información para el Desarrollo (CID)
Contact: Maria Teresa Norori

Peru (Lima):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Sandra Arzubiaga

Uruguay (Montevideo):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Valeria Bolla Nozar

Venezuela (Caracas): [external]
Biblioteca Ernesto Peltzer (Public Information Center)
Contact: (vacant)



Middle East & North Africa Region: For full details on address and hours of operation at a Public Information Center, please see http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop/mena.htm
Algeria (Algers):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Nawal Merabet

Egypt (Cairo):
Country Office Library
Contact: Nehal Hassan El Kouesny

Lebanon (Beirut):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Zeina El Khalil

Morocco (Rabat):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Hafida Sahraoui

Saudi Arabia (Riyadh):
Country Office Library
Contact: Ayna Al-Adel

West Bank & Gaza (Jerusalem):
Country Office Library
Contact: Mary Koussa

Yemen (Sana'a):
Country Office Library
Contact: Esam Al Ghorbani



South Asia Region: For full details on address and hours of operation at a Public Information Center, please see http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop/s_asia.htm
Afganistan (Kabul):
Country Office Public Information Center
Contact: Esmatullah Shahpoor

Bangladesh (Dhaka):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Rehnuma Amin

India (New Delhi):
Country Office Library
Contact: Hema Balasubramanian

Nepal (Kathmandu): [external]
The World Bank Public Information Center/Poverty Reduction Strategy Resource Center
Contact: Reena K. Shrestha

Pakistan (Islamabad):
Country Office PIC/Library
Contact: Abdul Salam Syed

Sri Lanka (Colombo):
Country Office Library
Contact: Chulanganie Lakshmi De Silva



Water & Sanitation Program:
Water & Sanitation Program - Africa (WSP-AF) Library (Nairobi)
Contact: Norah Akuku Osoro

Western & Central Africa Library (Abidjan)
Contact: Delphine Bouquin

South Asia Library (New Delhi)
Contact: (vacant)


External Affairs: For full details on address and hours of operation, please see http://www.worldbank.org/html/pic/picworld.htm
Europe (Paris):
Public Information Center
Contact: Valerie Chevalier

Japan (Tokyo):
Public Information Center
Contact: Yoshiko Maruyama

USA (New York, NY):
Public Information Center
Contact: Clare Fleming

USA (Washington, DC):
Infoshop
Contact: Hannah George


Please e-mail any corrections to this list to Elena Zimina

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