WASHINGTON, April 17, 2024 – The World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group are partnering on an ambitious effort to provide at least 300 million people in Africa with electricity access by ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Ana María de Jesús de Mena, Chief Administrator of the Saltos de Jima Natural Monument, has spent more than 15 years with the Ministry of Environment. She started as a foreman and now runs this ...

The world’s largest development bank, IBRD provides financial products and policy advice to help countries reduce poverty and extend the benefits of sustainable growth to all of their people. The ...

It is estimated that more than US$400 million was claimed in ransoms for pirate acts between April 2005 and December 2012. 179 ships were hijacked off the coast of Somalia and the Horn of Africa ...

The LSMS multi-purpose survey collects data on many dimensions of household and individual wellbeing to assess household welfare, understand hosuehold behavior and evaluate the effect of various ...

The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series encourages the exchange of ideas on development and quickly disseminates the findings of research in progress. This series is aimed at showcasing ...

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Financial sector is the set of institutions, instruments, markets, as well as the legal and regulatory framework that permit transactions to be made by extending credit. Fundamentally, financial ...

Talip Kilic is the Acting Manager and Senior Program Manager for the World Bank Development Data Group Survey Unit, which houses the International Comparison Program (ICP) – a worldwide statistical ...

VIENNA, Oct. 7, 2025—Economic growth in the Western Balkans is expected to moderately accelerate in 2026 and recover more robustly in 2027, supported by stronger exports and investment as uncertainty ...

Washington, DC – April 16, 2026: Guided by the outcome of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) polling process, the World Bank Group today announced that it is resuming dealings with the Government ...