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.

Latest news and information from the World Bank and its development work in Turkmenistan. Access Turkmenistan’s economy facts, statistics, project information, development research from experts and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Almost a year into the pandemic, nearly every business in the world has been affected by COVID-19, but performance has varied widely, even within countries and industries. Data collected through the ...

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 » ...

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 ...

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 ...

Green energy technologies required for a low-carbon future will lead to a growth in demand for a wide range of minerals and metals The shift to a low-carbon future will result in significant ...