The World Bank Group made a commitment to align all its financing operations with the goals of the Paris Agreement in its Climate Change Action Plan 2021-2025. The Paris Alignment of the Bank Group’s ...

Uzbekistan has undertaken extensive reforms in recent years, liberalizing certain economic sectors and enhancing the private sector's prospects. In 2023, the Government made several key moves, such as ...

Digital technologies are transforming economies, creating jobs, and improving lives. They have dramatically changed communications, business, health, education, finance and more. Yet the digital ...

Social safety net programs protect families from the impact of economic shocks, natural disasters, and other crises. Data shows that these programs lower inequality, and reduce the poverty gap by ...

Global commodity prices are leveling off after a steep descent that played a decisive role in whittling down overall ...

Ha Noi, April 23, 2024—Viet Nam's economy is showing mixed signs of recovery, with growth forecast to reach 5.5% in 2024 and gradually rise to 6.0% by 2025, according to the latest World Bank Taking ...

With 365 million people without electricity access and 558 million people without clean cooking access, Eastern and Southern Africa accounts for more than half of the world’s unelectrified population ...

A landlocked country in East Africa, Burundi is a low-income economy, with 80% of the population employed in the agricultural sector. Located in the Great Lakes region, Burundi is surrounded by Rwanda ...

Is having an electricity line run into your home the same as you being able to turn on lights or appliances without worrying if it is affordable and of good quality? And is access to energy any good ...

With its global footprint and convening power, IDA provides a lifeline for the 1.3 billion people living in the world’s poorest countries. Today the International Development Association (IDA) ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow modestly in 2024, returning to the low growth that prevailed in the decade before the pandemic. In addition to examining the ...

Makalé Cisse fills her buckets with water from her own tap installed at her home as part of a World Bank-financed project. Over 30,000 people benefited from improved safe water services in Greater ...