The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Tsutomu Yamamoto as Managing Director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), home of the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform.

In 2024, Belize, a small Caribbean country grappling with increasing climate risks that strain its economy, gained access to ...

Investing in health drives job creation and economic growth, highlighting its pivotal role in building resilient societies and fostering prosperity.

Social protection, labor & employment systems help poor and vulnerable people cope with crises and shocks, find jobs, invest in the health and education of their children, and protect the aging ...

The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) is part of the GovTech Initiative to measure maturity in four focus areas: supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen ...

Indonesia is now one of Asia Pacific’s most vibrant democracies that has maintained political stability and emerged as a confident middle-income country.

The World Bank In Cambodia Over the two decades before COVID-19 struck in 2020, Cambodia blossomed economically. Having reached lower middle-income status in 2015, it set its signs on attaining upper ...

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Country Partnership Framework for IndiaIndia is in a period of unprecedented opportunity, challenge and ambition in its development. The country’s extreme poverty rate has fallen from 46 percent to 21 ...

In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, on a narrow atoll barely rising above the sea, sits one of the most remarkable pieces of infrastructure in the world, not because it is the largest, or the busiest, ...

For years, Jamaica has been highly exposed to natural disasters, from hurricanes and floods to earthquakes and landslides.

The World Bank Board of Directors approved a new operation to support the green hydrogen strategy of Companhia de Desenvolvimento do Complexo Industrial e Portuário do Pecém (Pecém Industrial and Port ...