Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty ...

Global growth is projected to slow to 2.3 percent in 2025, nearly half a percentage point lower than the rate that had been ...

This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms, stronger oversight of unconventional debt, broader loan-level reporting, ...

The Joint MDB Water Security Financing Report 2024 marks a milestone in collective action by ten Multilateral Development ...

Fifty-eight-year-old widow Arza Parveen wasted no time building a life of resilience and independence after her husband was injured in war. Her family was left without financial support. With a ...

World Bank assessment finds conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty faster than anywhere else, intensifying acute ...

The table below lists the WBG client countries that are recognized as Small States and members of the Small States Forum (SSF), as well as those classified by the United Nations as Small Island ...

In 2017, Uzbekistan launched a major reform agenda for societal and economic transformation, breaking from its past as a largely state-led, isolated economy. Between 2018 and 2021, the World Bank ...

The Lab is a collaborative initiative between the World Bank Group and Chief Executive Officers of leading global private sector institutions to develop specific approaches that can be implemented and ...

Schedule The 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will take place from April 21 to 26, in Washington, D.C. Key events will include the ...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces critical challenges for digital development, including underdeveloped digital infrastructure, lack of accessible and affordable connectivity, a stubborn digital gender ...

More developing economies are turning to off-budget and more complex borrowing arrangements in response to a tighter financing environment, making it harder to fully assess public debt exposures, ...