The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Tsutomu Yamamoto as Managing Director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), home of the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform.

Gender equality is essential for development. It can unlock economic productivity, reduce poverty, deepen social cohesion, and enhance wellbeing and prosperity. Women’s participation and leadership ...

Faltering economic growth is coinciding with ample oil supply in ways that are expected to drop global commodity prices to their lowest level of the 2020s, according to the World Bank’s latest ...

In the midst of the worst shock to education and learning in a century, global learning poverty is at crisis levels. This new report stresses that COVID-19-related school closures and other ...

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the expected demand for the Middle Corridor, a multimodal rail and maritime corridor linking Chinese and European markets via Central Asia and the ...

What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050Click here to download a PDF version of the infographic.

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2018—Financial inclusion is on the rise globally, accelerated by mobile phones and the internet, but gains have been uneven across countries. A new World Bank report on the use ...

The World Bank launched the Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit (eMBeD). eMBeD puts conclusions from the 2015 World Development Report into practice. Read More » ...

We asked Sandhya Srinivasan, Senior Climate Change Specialist with the World Bank’s Carbon Markets and Innovation team, to explain the significance of Article 6.

The report draws on the latest available data and analysis to assess the ongoing impact of the conflict to the Palestinian economy.

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022: Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia shows the country has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, but that some recent gains ...

GovTech has the potential to deliver on the promises of the digital age by improving core government systems and services to citizens. The World Bank has developed the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) to ...