Technology is transforming jobs and wages in East Asia and Pacific, creating opportunities but the benefits are not being ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As differences in price levels across the world evolve, the global poverty line has to be periodically updated to reflect these changes. Since 2015, the last update, we have used $1.90 as the global ...

Since the early 2000s, the global aid architecture has undergone a significant transformation, evolving without a clear blueprint in place. While financial flows to developing countries have grown, ...

The latest edition of the Africa’s Pulse reveals a modest increase in growth, showing a timid recovery from last year’s record low.

The Global Collaborative Co-Financing Platform is an important initiative designed to amplify impact and simplify processes for client countries. This Platform acts as a convening mechanism, improving ...

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

This report offers a detailed perspective on how the gains from trade may differ across regions, industries, and demographic groups in developing countries. Because good jobs are scarce in these ...

The World Bank'sAn initiative by the World Bank’s Global Water Practice to help embrace and implement circular and resilience principles in cities around the world. Download the Full Report The ...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$380 million loan to develop Indonesia’s first pumped storage hydropower plant, aiming to improve power generation capacity during peak ...