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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 access, mobilizing investment, and advancing tourism professionals.

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

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.

The World Bank Group today announced the launch of the next phase of its Private Sector Investment Lab, focused on implementing proven solutions at scale.

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 ...

After the commodity boom ended in 2014, Bolivia relied on significant public spending and increasing domestic credit to maintain high economic growth. In a less favorable context, these measures ...

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2025—Amid increasing uncertainty in the global economy, South Asia’s growth prospects have weakened, with projections downgraded in most countries in the region. Stepping up ...