Risking Lives to Protect Wildlife and Wildlands: Stories from Rangers in the Field
Risking Lives to Protect Wildlife and Wildlands: Stories from Rangers in the Field| World Bank
Risking Lives to Protect Wildlife and Wildlands: Stories from Rangers in the Field| World Bank
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O “limite de velocidade” da economia global, ou seja, a taxa máxima de crescimento a longo prazo sem aumento da inflação — deve vir a ser o menor em três décadas em 2030. De acordo com o novo relatório do Banco Mundial, um ambicioso impulso político será necessário para aumentar a produtividade e a oferta de mão-de-obra, acelerar os investimentos e o comércio, e tirar proveito do potencial do setor de serviços.| World Bank
世界経済の「制限速度」、すなわちインフレを引き起こすことなく長期持続可能な最大成長率が2030年までにこの30年間の最低水準まで低下する見通しとなった。そのため、生産性向上と労働力の供給拡大、投資と貿易の増加、サービス部門の潜在成長力押上げを促す野心的な政策が必要になる－世界銀行は最新報告書「悪化する長期成長見通し：傾向、予想、政策」の...| World Bank
The global economy’s “speed limit”—the maximum long-term rate at which it can grow without sparking inflation—is set to slump to a three-decade low by 2030. A World Bank report—Falling Long-Term Growth Prospects: Trends, Expectations, and Policies—shows that an ambitious policy push can boost productivity, ramp up investment, and harness the potential of the services sector.| World Bank
Policy guidance to scale up nutrition interventions in low- and middle-income countries includes: integrating nutrition into primary health systems, agrifood subsidies for healthy diets, maternal and child health investments to prevent stunting and wasting, and obesity prevention; this could save lives and increase economic productivity.| World Bank
Economic mobility has stalled in recent years in large parts of the world, with the prospects of too many people across the world still too closely tied to their parents’ social status rather than their own potential.| World Bank
Seventeen African governments committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300—an ambitious partnership led by the World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group that aims to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030.| World Bank
Around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic opportunity and 178 countries maintain legal barriers that prevent their full economic participation, according to the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2022 report. In 86 countries, women face some form of job restriction and 95 countries do not guarantee equal pay for equal work.| World Bank
Africa’s Pulse is a biannual publication containing an analysis of the near-term macroeconomic outlook for the region. Each issue also includes a section focusing upon a topic that represents a particular development challenge for the continent.| World Bank
The World Bank’s Board of Directors approved two new loans worth US$520 million yesterday, providing additional financing to address Tunisia’s food security challenge and to balance regional disparities through improved road corridor connectivity in the country.| World Bank
Out of the Shadows: Making Mental Health a Global Priority| World Bank
The World Bank has set a clear mission: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first postpandemic assessment of global progress on this agenda.| World Bank
Economic advances around the world mean that while fewer people live in extreme poverty, almost half the world’s population — 3.4 billion people — still struggles to meet basic needs, the World Bank said.| World Bank
Mission 300 - The World Bank Group and partners’ initiative to scale up electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa – because no economy can grow in the dark| World Bank
With 189 member countries, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership fighting poverty worldwide through sustainable solutions.| www.worldbank.org
The World Bank believes accelerating investments in people, also known as Investing in Human Capital is essential to achieving greater equity and economic growth. Check the definition of human capital in the World Bank Project brief.| World Bank
Two-thirds of adults worldwide now make or receive a digital payment. In developing countries, excluding China where digital payments are widespread, some 40% of people who made a digital payment from their account (to a merchant or for a utility service) did so for the very first time since the start of the pandemic. Digital payments are typically safer and more convenient, and can be an entry to using other financial services. Findex data show that adults who receive a payment into an ac...| World Bank
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) today issued a joint statement at COP29 in Baku outlining financial support and other measures for countries to achieve ambitious climate outcomes.| World Bank
Access to financial services and financial inclusion are necessary to reduce world’s poverty and increase prosperity. The World Bank Group and partners set an ambitious goal to achieve Universal Financial Access (UFA) by 2020. #Finaccess2020| World Bank
Latest news and information from the World Bank and its development work on Climate Change. Access facts, statistics, project information, development research from experts and latest news about Climate Change.| World Bank
Universal basic income (UBI)—defined as a transfer that is provided universally, unconditionally, and in cash—holds an attractive promise of change across many lines.| World Bank
The latest global economic outlook for 2024-2025 from the World Bank. Learn about economic trends, policies, GDP growth, risks, and inflation rates affecting the world economy, stability, and development.| World Bank
Half of the adults around the world – around 2.5 billion people – don’t use formal financial services, and 75% of poor people are unbanked because of costs, travel distances and burdensome requirements involved in opening a financial account. While the poor don’t have the same access to financial products, their need for financial services may be even greater. Financial inclusion is a key to achieving our goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. World Bank ...| World Bank
Learn how climate change is affecting global food security today and what can we expect in the future.| World Bank
Indigenous Peoples play a key role in the conservation of forests and biodiversity. Find out how the World Bank is helping Indigenous Peoples boost their participation in forest discussions.| World Bank
The World Bank Group’s Boards of Executive Directors discussed with Management an Evolution Roadmap for the Bank Group to better address the scale of development challenges that affect the Group’s ability to achieve its mission.| World Bank
Global Waste to Grow by 70 Percent by 2050 Unless Urgent Action is Taken: World Bank Report| World Bank
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces critical challenges for digital development, including underdeveloped digital infrastructure, lack of accessible and affordable connectivity, a stubborn digital gender gap, limited skills for digitally enabled industries, and inadequate regulatory and policy environments. However, in the last decade, the region has made substantial strides toward digital transformation, with hundreds of millions of people gaining access to the internet and productively utilizing...| World Bank
As the world nears the midpoint of what was intended to be a transformative decade for development, the global economy is set to rack up a sorry record by the end of 2024—the slowest half-decade of GDP growth in 30 years, according to the World Bank’s January 2024 Global Economic Prospects report.| World Bank
The Global Database of Shared Prosperity (World Bank) includes the most recent figures on income growth of the bottom 40 per cent and a few related indicators for nearly 80 countries, which are roughly comparable in terms of time period and interval.| World Bank
The World Bank’s response to the food insecurity crisis, the solutions it’s working on, including financing food and fertilizer—and commodities and agricultural data.| World Bank
The garment industry is one of the most polluting. Clothes makers and consumers have begun to join the call for a more sustainable industry| World Bank
Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls. On any given day, over 800 million women worldwide are menstruating, but an estimated 500 million lack access to menstrual products and adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene management (MHM). To effectively manage their menstruation, girls and women require access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities, affordable and appropriate menstrual hygiene materials, informa...| World Bank
A worldwide statistical initiative to collect comparative price data and detailed GDP expenditures to produce purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the world’s economies| World Bank
The World Bank is helping to fight poverty and improve living standards for the people of the DRC, through education, energy, health and other social services.| World Bank
One billion people, or 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability. Persons with disabilities on average are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes than persons without disabilities, such as lower rates of education, worse health outcomes, less employment, and higher poverty levels.| World Bank
The World Bank aims to promote indigenous peoples' development in a manner which ensures that the development process fosters full respect for the dignity, human rights, and uniqueness of indigenous peoples.| World Bank
The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity.| World Bank
Today, over 4 billion people around the world – more than half the global population – live in cities. This trend is expected to continue. By 2050, with the urban population more than doubling its current size, nearly 7 of 10 people in the world will live in cities.| World Bank
Fighting poverty in all of its dimensions lies at the core of the World Bank’s work. We work closely with governments to develop sound policies so that poor people can improve their livelihoods, and access social and infrastructure services and good jobs.| World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred financial inclusion – driving a large increase in digital payments amid the global expansion of formal financial services. This expansion created new economic opportunities, closing the gender gap in account ownership, and building resilience at the household level to better manage financial shocks, according to the Global Findex 2021 database.| World Bank
The 2021 edition of the Global Findex, contains updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services and digital payments, and offers insights into the behaviors that enable financial resilience.| World Bank
