Despite increasing food production over the past three decades, 58% of Africans remain food insecure. Transport is an ...

Effective May 12, 2025, the arrears of approximately $15.5 million due to the International Development Association (IDA) by ...

The LAC Equity Lab is a data-sharing platform featuring the latest indicators and analytics on poverty, shared prosperity, inequality, and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean. The platform ...

With World Bank support, Armenia has renovated and modernized medical facilities, purchased vital equipment, and trained staff to better screen and treat non-communicable diseases.

The World Bank Group Youth Summit returns for its 12th edition, inviting young people to engage with the most urgent issues their generation faces, while bringing together thousands of participants ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow moderately at 2.6 percent in 2025 — a forecast that is shrouded in uncertainty given the rapidly changing global environment as well ...

The new IFC-World Bank report Financing Firm Growth: The Role of Capital Markets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries explores the surge in capital market financing in low- and middle-income countries ...

The QEDS SDDS database, jointly developed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, are in-line with the classifications and definitions of the 2013 External Debt Statistics: Guide for ...

Located in Southern Africa, Malawi is landlocked, sharing its borders with Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania. The country's estimated population is 21.1million (2023) with an annual growth rate of 2.6% ...

A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these ...

The need for job creation to help fight poverty and drive development has never been greater. Urgent, deliberate action to spur private sector growth can strengthen economic and social stability, ...