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.

Over the past decade, the African Centers of Excellence (ACE) have trained thousands of students in key fields such as health, agriculture, digital technology, energy, and the environment. But behind ...

Investing in health drives job creation and economic growth, highlighting its pivotal role in building resilient societies and fostering prosperity.

In 2024, Belize, a small Caribbean country grappling with increasing climate risks that strain its economy, gained access to concessional financing from the World Bank’s International Development ...

The World Bank In Cambodia Over the two decades before COVID-19 struck in 2020, Cambodia blossomed economically. Having reached lower middle-income status in 2015, it set its signs on attaining upper ...

Climate change and food and nutrition insecurity pose two of the greatest development challenges of our time. Yet a more sustainable food system can not only heal the planet, but ensure food security ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

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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 objective of the Network is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences among the Central Banks regarding policies and mechanisms that help strengthen research capabilities on monetary and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread with alarming speed, infecting millions and bringing economic activity to a near-standstill as countries imposed tight restrictions on movement to halt the spread of ...

Learn more about the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on households and individuals in over 70 countries across all developing regions.