Global growth is projected to slow to 2.3 percent in 2025, nearly half a percentage point lower than the rate that had been ...

Flows of foreign direct investment into developing economies have dwindled to the lowest level since 2005 amid rising trade ...

World Bank assessment finds conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, ...

Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty ...

This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms ...

Rwanda's Journey to Job Creation A sunny June day in a Kigali market, a young girl named Joy sets out a small basket of ...

Some women in Somalia have found work in its male-dominated construction industry, proving that skill, not gender, determines ...

The World Bank has updated its global poverty lines. This latest revision uses 2021 purchasing power parities, as well as updated national poverty lines that better capture countries’ household ...

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Data Highlights World Bank Contribution. Projects supporting national cash transfer programs totaled about $14 billion between 2001 and 2023, representing half of the Social Protection and Jobs ...

The Office of Suspension and Debarment (OSD) provides the first level of independent adjudication in the World Bank’s sanctions system. When there is sufficient evidence of misconduct, OSD temporarily ...

Between 2014 and 2024, the World Bank supported 64 countries worldwide in building the foundations of cyber resilience. Establishing and enhancing Computer Security Incident Response Teams ...