This report brings new evidence on how human capital is formed, showing that homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces play a central role.

WASHINGTON, February 9, 2026 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $50 million in financing to boost Nepal’s digital public infrastructure and digitize public services, ...

With support from an IDA-backed project, Maksat Kydyrzhan started a dumpling business in rural Kyrgyz Republic, creating ...

As a group, frontier markets’ economic outcomes since 2000 have not fully delivered on this promise, however. Per capita ...

Meerim Nurdin Kyzy proudly shows off the tap in her front yard, which now provides clean, safe water for her family. With 5 children of her own and two stepchildren, aged 14 years to 6 months, Meerim ...

To realize this potential, we are helping countries scale up essential nutrition services, integrate nutrition into health systems and across other sectors, and leverage financing through public and ...

Abuja, Nigeria, October 8, 2025 - Nigeria has taken important steps toward stabilizing its economy through recent policy reforms, but more needs to be done to ensure these gains translate into better ...

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025 – Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy remains resilient, with growth projected to reach 3.8 percent in 2025, up from 3.5 percent in 2024. This acceleration reflects easing ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2025 — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a new program to support coastal communities in India by protecting and conserving ecosystems, reducing ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2025 – Effective May 12, 2025, the arrears of approximately $15.5 million due to the International Development Association (IDA) by the Syrian Arab Republic have been cleared. The ...