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
Sustained business reforms over the past several years has helped India jump 14 places to move to 63rd position in this year’s global ease of Doing Business rankings.| World Bank
Digital infrastructure is foundational to promoting universal access to inclusive, affordable, safe, and resilient internet access that spurs growth, job creation and services and products for people and businesses. Yet, the digital divide remains stark: nearly 3 billion people were unconnected to the internet globally in 2023. The World Bank is working with countries and partners to promote effective telecommunications markets, expand broadband internet coverage, and increase access, product...| World Bank
As differences in price levels across the world evolve, the global poverty line has to be periodically updated to reflect these changes. Since 2015, the last update, we have used $1.90 as the global line. As of fall 2022, the new global line will be updated to $2.15.| World Bank
Viet Nam’s economy is forecast to grow 6.1 percent in 2024, and 6.5 percent in both 2025 and 2026, up from 5 percent last year, according to the Bank’s latest Taking Stock report. The report highlights the resilience of the Vietnamese economy despite rising global challenges.| World Bank
Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade reaching 44% of the total population, according to a new World Bank report released today. Based on a recent household survey covering the five governorates of Akkar, Beirut, Bekaa, North Lebanon and most of Mount Lebanon| 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
