Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty ...

Global growth is projected to slow to 2.3 percent in 2025, nearly half a percentage point lower than the rate that had been ...

The Joint MDB Water Security Financing Report 2024 marks a milestone in collective action by ten Multilateral Development ...

This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms, stronger oversight of unconventional debt, broader loan-level reporting, ...

World Bank assessment finds conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty faster than anywhere else, intensifying acute ...

World Bank Appoints New Country Director for PakistanISLAMABAD, June 30, 2025 — Ms. Bolormaa Amgaabazar is the new World Bank Country Director for Pakistan effective July 1. She is succeeding Mr. Najy ...

Schedule The 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will take place from April 21 to 26, in Washington, D.C. Key events will include the ...

Rwanda's Journey to Job Creation A sunny June day in a Kigali market, a young girl named Joy sets out a small basket of oranges along the road. She had left school due to financial hardship, and now ...

Fifty-eight-year-old widow Arza Parveen wasted no time building a life of resilience and independence after her husband was injured in war. Her family was left without financial support. With a ...

1. What is Development Policy Financing? World Bank assistance can be provided through development policy financing (DPF), which provides non-earmarked funds for development policy operations (DPO).

About the Finance and Prosperity Report Finance and Prosperity is an annual World Bank report that examines financial sector developments and vulnerabilities in low- and middle-income countries. These ...

Report | Executive summary | Charts and data | Press release Foreign direct investment (FDI)—an important source of external financing for emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs)—has weakened ...