The Tamil Nadu Rural Transformation Project is helping to address the financial challenges faced by aspirational women ...

Ensuring that all girls and young women receive a quality education is their human right, a global development priority, and a strategic priority for the World Bank. Achieving gender equality is ...

Ethiopia has made significant progress in energy access in recent years; however, despite a 94% electrification rate in urban ...

The World Bank Group provides innovative solutions for financing, enabling and delivering sustainable infrastructure. We build stronger investment environments; design projects that are bankable, ...

Our mission at the World Bank is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. Through the Community Connections program, we live these goals in our own communities via ...

Here’s an update as we wrap up a two-week mission in Africa, concluding key discussions at Mining Indaba and reflecting on progress in the World Bank’s mining program, alongside IFC and MIGA. Three ...

About 1.2 billion people are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. The new World Bank flagship report ...

African heads of state, business leaders, and development partners will converge tomorrow in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the ...

Bulgaria has undergone a significant transformation over the past three decades. It has transformed from a highly centralized, planned economy to an open, market-based, upper-middle-income economy ...

This summary is based on the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) Issues Paper produced by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and disseminated for the 2nd GPFI ...

Canada advances its ideals of stability, sustainable prosperity, and economic inclusion through its partnership with the World Bank Group. Since 1945, Canada and the Bank Group have worked together ...

Digital technologies and AI are disrupting the way people live, work, and learn. At the same time, education systems need to become both a rapid producer and an avid consumer of digital and data ...