The World Bank Group, in partnership with multilateral development banks, development finance institutions and key partners, today launched Water Forward, a global platform to help improve water ...

The Heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank Group met today as part of the coordination group they established in early April to maximize their ...

Guided by the outcome of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) polling process, World Bank Group President Ajay Banga today announced that the World Bank Group is now resuming dealings with the Gove ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2026 — The World Bank Group’s Reserve Advisory and Management Partnership (RAMP) program and the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo (CBK) signed a new membership ...

The World Bank’s Prospects Group has constructed a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space. The database covers 204 countries over the period 1990-2025, and includes 29 indicators of ...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the economic backbone of virtually every economy in the world. SMEs represent more than 95% of registered firms worldwide, account for more than 50% of jobs, ...

The World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) provides scholarships to students and young researchers, contributing to the World Bank’s mission of forging new dynamic approaches to ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

In response to a widespread and worsening water crisis, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are taking strong steps to ensure a water-secure future for their citizens. In the process, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread with alarming speed, infecting millions and bringing economic activity to a near-standstill as countries imposed tight restrictions on movement to halt the spread of ...

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022: Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia shows the country has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, but that some recent gains ...

Abuja, Nigeria, October 8, 2025 - Nigeria has taken important steps toward stabilizing its economy through recent policy reforms, but more needs to be done to ensure these gains translate into better ...