Slovenia has announced a 30% increase in its contribution to the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA), reinforcing its commitment to supporting the world's poorest countries. The ...

Fifty-eight-year-old widow Arza Parveen wasted no time building a life of resilience and independence after her husband was injured in war. Her family was left without financial support. With a ...

In this episode of the People First Podcast, we explore the LEADS program, an innovative World Bank initiative reshaping project design and implementation. Listen to insights from Arianna Legovini, ...

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

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

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

The World Bank Group and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sealed an agreement to work together to support the safe, secure and responsible use of nuclear energy in developing countries.

The Energy Progress Report assesses achievements in the global quest for universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030. In 2023, the global effort to improve access ...

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

More developing economies are turning to off-budget and more complex borrowing arrangements in response to a tighter financing environment, making it harder to fully assess public debt exposures, ...

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 ...

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