The World Bank Group announced on Tuesday a package of financial measures that will boost lending capacity and make loans ...

The world’s 26 poorest economies, home to about 40 percent of all people who live on less than $2.15 a day, are deeper in ...

It could take more than a century to eliminate poverty as it is defined for nearly half the world – people who live on less than $6.85 per day, according to the World Bank’s new Poverty, Prosperity, ...

Despite signs of a fragile economic recovery, Sub-Saharan Africa, remains stuck in “low gear” with a large youth population at risk of being left behind. According to the latest edition of Africa ...

The World Bank has set a clear mission: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This ...

LIBREVILLE, October 14th, 2024 - Released today by the World Bank, the Gabon Economic Update 2024 presents fiscal policy reforms to optimize fiscal revenues while allowing Gabon to advance the green ...

Malaysia’s economy is expected to grow by 4.9 percent in 2024, up from 3.6 percent in 2023, following a stronger-than-anticipated performance in 1H 2024. This revised forecast is 0.6 percentage points ...

KUALA LUMPUR, October 14, 2024 – Widespread adoption and scaling of digital agriculture technologies (DATs) will accelerate Malaysia’s journey to achieving high-income nation status, a new report from ...

With the support from the financial incentive scheme facilitated by the AGILE project, Fatima re-enrolled in school after dropping out for months. International Day of the Girl Child, October 11, is ...

This World Bank report provides the first systematic assessment of the causes of chronic fiscal weakness in the very poorest ...

The United States was a leading force in the establishment of the World Bank in 1944 and remains the largest shareholder of the World Bank today. As the only World Bank shareholder that retains veto ...