The World Bank forecasts that the 2020s will witness the glutted economic expansion after the 1960s, downgraded due to trade tensions and policy uncertainty, to a...
The World Bank today released its 2023 Logistics Performance Index report, a measure of countries’ ability to move goods across borders with speed and reliability. The...
Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world. Information from the latest month between December 2022 and March 2023 for which food price inflation data...
The World Bank announced a new multi-partner fund that will pool funding from the global community — including donor countries, the private sector and foundations —...
Developing countries face growing risks from financial fragility created by the COVID-19 crisis and non-transparent debt, says a new World Bank report. As rising inflation and...
The last time you were asked to produce your birth certificate, you most likely rolled your eyes and thought, “We’re still doing that?” Even as much...
The global economy is expected to expand 4% in 2021, assuming an initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout becomes widespread throughout the year. A recovery, however, will likely...
COVID-related school closures risk pushing an additional 72 million primary school aged children into learning poverty—meaning that they are unable to read and understand a simple text...
Swedish Insurance Group Folksam invests in World Bank bonds to raise awareness for health, gender, responsible consumption and production, and climate The World Bank (IBRD) has...
In support of the government of Djibouti’s goal of achieving universal access to electricity by 2035, the World Bank is launching a new project to bring...