The World Bank Group, in partnership with multilateral development banks, development finance institutions and key partners, today launched Water Forward, a global platform to help improve water ...
The paper utilizes this method to analyze six key indicators of development with cross-country data from 1950 and finds that the world is developing at its slowest pace in 75 years. This slowdown has ...
Water resource management (WRM) is foundational to sustainable development, economic growth, and poverty reduction, yet water ...
Using the Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean, this paper examines lone-mother households across 15 countries, focusing on the prevalence of lone motherhood, socioeconomic ...
This report focuses on the effectiveness of North Macedonia’s VET system in equipping workers with the skills needed in a ...
This report focuses on Kosovo’s current training pathways into in-demand ICT technician occupations highlighting strengths, ...
The Heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank Group met today as part of the coordination group they established in early April to maximize their ...
Join us for the 2026 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group—a global gathering of policymakers, private sector leaders, and development partners focused on ...
New data from the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law project shed light on the gender dimensions of taxation and public spending—two key fiscal policy tools that impact economic growth and ...
The 2029 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund will take place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in October 2029, as decided in a vote by the Boards of Governors of ...
The Global Financial Development Database is an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 214 economies. It contains annual data, starting from 1960. It has been last updated in ...
The overall objective of the present study is to contribute to the knowledge-base that is urgently required for the implementation of sustainable rural development activities in Haiti. The study ...