BEIJING, December 14, 2023 — Economic activity in China has picked up in 2023, driven by increased demand for services, resilient manufacturing investment, and public infrastructure stimulus. However, ...

The organizations that make up the World Bank Group are owned by the governments of member nations, which have the ultimate decision-making power within the organizations on all matters, including ...

The Archives Catalog offers finding aids that describe our records which are the documentary evidence of all of the business activities of the Bank. The finding aids assist researchers when making a ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 150 developing countries. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual Meetings of the World Bank ...

The World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a household survey program working to strengthen the availability, quality, relevance, and timeliness of household surveys implemented in ...

IDS provides comprehensive annual external debt stocks and flows data. Explore IDS data through the data tables below or for more data and information you can visit: ...

Sustained poverty reduction requires that households not only make income and welfare gains, but that they are also protected from shocks and setbacks – including extreme weather events. These events ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

More than 45 percent of tourists to Nepal visit the country’s wealth of natural resources, including snow-capped mountains, abundant rivers, and sub-tropical forests. The country’s significant ...

Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as ...

One of the key outcomes of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was the approval of Article 6 – the Paris Agreement’s rulebook governing carbon markets. How might Article 6 make a difference in the ...

NAIROBI, May 27, 2025—Kenya’s public debt remains at high risk of distress, with interest payments absorbing about a third of tax revenue. Reforms to strengthen fiscal sustainability in an equitable ...