The Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) is a landmark collaboration between the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, designed to deepen the two institutions’ collaboration on cofinanced public ...

World Bank Live is the World Bank’s global livestreaming platform for anyone who wants to better understand today’s most important development challenges — and what can be done about them. Through ...

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. Now in her second term, she was first sworn into office on 19 August 2013. As the head of the UN ...

Spring Meetings 2025 concluded with a call to action from Chairwoman Elisabeth Svantesson, urging countries to unlock private sector potential to create more and better jobs. The Meetings emphasized ...

Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

The World Bank Group’s Annual Conference on Development Economics—ABCDE—is a 36-year-old forum to stimulate an exchange of ideas between leaders in global ...

Panel discussion: Investors share their vision for what will stimulate private sector investment in Africa’s energy sector, government initiatives that would increase investor confidence, and consider ...

Axel van Trotsenburg is the World Bank’s Senior Managing Director (SMD), responsible for Development Policy and Partnerships. Read more Read more ...

Hassan Ali Khayre was appointed Prime Minister of Somalia on February 23, 2017. He and his family fled to Norway as refugees in 1991 at the outbreak of Somalia’s civil war. He worked for several years ...

Watch the event replays to explore how the World Bank Group and its development partners can tackle global challenges head-on, including solutions to ramp up finance and knowledge, foster private ...

Dr. James Mwangi is Group CEO of Equity Group Holdings, credited with democratizing financial access, leading Equity to become an integrated financial services Group operating in 6 African countries ...

Riccardo Puliti, an Italian national, is IFC’s Regional Vice President for Asia and the Pacific and oversees all investment and advisory operations across the region. Mr. Puliti is focused on ...