The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Paschal Donohoe as Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer.

The World Bank’s Digital Progress and Trends 2025 report explores how AI is reshaping economies and societies, highlights ...

Artificial Intelligence presents a timely and powerful tool to help reimagine agricultural transformation in ways that are more productive, sustainable, and inclusive. This report presents a ...

The International Debt Report (IDR) is a longstanding annual publication of the World Bank featuring external debt statistics and analysis for the low- and middle-income countries that report to the ...

Creating Jobs, Growing Economies ...

The JJ/WBGSP is open to citizens of certain developing countries with relevant professional experience and a history of supporting their countries’ development efforts who are applying to a master's ...

As part of our efforts to create a Better Bank, we are focusing on our engagement with countries to support them to address development challenges with greater impact. We plan to better align it with ...

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022: Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia shows the country has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, but that some recent gains ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

To realize this potential, we are helping countries scale up essential nutrition services, integrate nutrition into health systems and across other sectors, and leverage financing through public and ...

In response to a widespread and worsening water crisis, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are taking strong steps to ensure a water-secure future for their citizens. In the process, ...

The economy is set to gain momentum in 2025, driven by stronger domestic demand and fiscal stimulus measures. Growth is projected to accelerate to 2.9 percent in 2025 up from 2.6 percent in 2024.