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

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 ...

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 ...

India is in a period of unprecedented opportunity, challenge and ambition in its development. The country’s extreme poverty rate has fallen from 46 percent to 21 percent in the two decades up to 2011, ...

The Change-Makers: Empowering Youth for Inclusive Societies report offers a fresh look at how to meaningfully empower young people worldwide. Based on extensive global evidence and World Bank ...

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 ...

This checklist summarizes the steps to request or renew a dependent Employment Authorization Card (EAC). The EAC is required for all paid or unpaid jobs and unpaid educational internships in the U.S., ...

Diana Alarcón serves as the Alternate Executive Director for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Spain since November 1, 2024. Ms. Alarcon is an economist with a ...

The Digital Citizen Engagement (CE) Catalog is a comprehensive resource designed to support World Bank staff, governments officials, and civil society organizations (CSOs) in leveraging digital tools ...

Access to electricity is a lifeline, not just a utility. For countries like Madagascar, it holds the key to transforming lives, creating jobs, driving economic growth, boosting productivity, improving ...

Malaysia has made impressive strides in economic growth and poverty reduction over the past few decades, setting the stage for its transition to high-income nation status between 2028 and 2030. The ...