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 ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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Global gas flaring rose to its highest level since 2007, wasting $63 billion in energy and emitting 389 million tonnes of ...

The World Bank is strengthening its procurement requirements to help address the jobs challenge in developing countries by requiring companies working on World Bank-funded projects to include local ...