Discover the impact of generative AI on jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean, addressing productivity boosts, risks of ...

Through skills, training, and entrepreneurship support Kenya created 155,000 jobs, boosting youth employment. Young Kenyans ...

Transforming Indonesia's tourism sector and creating jobs through infrastructure and capacity building, improving water ...

The World Bank and Italy today signed an agreement to advance sustainable development in Africa, complementing the country’s recent contributions to multilateral development and increasing its ...

Ireland increased its pledge to the International Development Association (IDA) by 33 percent to €141.4 million, reinforcing its commitment to improving lives in the world’s poorest countries.

The economic growth of the Dominican Republic has tripled the regional average over the past two decades, resulting in close to 3 million people rising out of poverty, a middle class that now ...

The Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) met today and reviewed progress on the work to improve debt restructuring processes and timelines, and to help address debt vulnerabilities.

Peru became an upper-middle-income economy in two decades. Poverty fell from 60 percent in 2002 to 24 percent in 2013, and GDP per capita jumped from US$2,126 in 2003 to US$8,458 in 2024. Prudent ...

Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption offers an assessment of the challenges governments face in tackling corruption, what instruments tend to work and why, ...

The world’s largest development bank, IBRD provides financial products and policy advice to help countries reduce poverty and extend the benefits of sustainable growth to all of their people. The ...

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2025 — According to the World Bank’s latest Middle East and North Africa Economic Update, entitled Shifting Gears: The Private Sector as an Engine of Growth in the Middle East ...