After benefiting from 288 million liters of drinking water, Bamako is expanding access to drinking water services on its left ...

Over 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water, and 3.5 billion lack proper sanitation—key risks for child mortality and stunting. The World Bank helps countries improve water and sanitation ...

The Digital Malawi Project (2017-2024) supported by $72.4 million from the International Development Association, helped ...

In rural communities across Bangladesh, dedicated champions like Rita Majumder are quietly driving change. A mother and ...

Over two decades and with support from the World Bank, many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region pioneered and continuously refined flagship cash transfer programs, mainly conditional ...

The HCI provides a new definition of human capital and quantifies the contribution of health and education to the productivity of the next generation of workers. Countries can use it to assess how ...

The April 2025 edition of Africa’s Pulse reports that economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is showing some resilience, despite uncertainty in the global economy and restricted fiscal space. Regional ...

C4R, supported by the World Bank’s Governance & Institutions Umbrella Program, organized an webinar titled "How to Build Trust – The Key to Success in Public Reforms". This webinar presented the ...

April 29, 2025 — Faltering economic growth is coinciding with ample oil supply in ways that are expected to drop global commodity prices to their lowest level of the 2020s, according to the World Bank ...

This inaugural edition analyzes new data and highlights a growing divergence in financial sector resilience and stability among emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) and critical trends in ...

The World Bank’s mission is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. To effectively monitor progress toward this goal, it is critical to measure poverty on a regular ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 149 developing countries. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual Meetings of the World Bank ...