In a recent policy change, the World Bank is making more operational information publicly available, and the Public Information Center (PIC) is part of this process. While past data is not being released, as time marches on, more and more information will be available through the PIC. Such data covers a number of areas, including projects under development, Staff Appraisal Reports (SARs), Country Economic and Sector Work (CESW) reports, Sectoral Policy Papers, Environmental Data Sheets, National Environmental Action Plans (EAPs), evaluation reports from the Operations Evaluation Department Project Information Documents, IFC Environmental Documents, IDA10 Reviews, and Global Environmental Facility Project Documents. This site also has information on World Bank Publications (including ordering information).
One can find email address of Bank employees by sending mail to services@worldbank.org with "Directory Whois Lastname" or "Directory Whois FirstName Lastname" in the body of the email.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/PIC.html
gopher://gopher.worldbank.org:70/1/
Bill Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu>