With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The …

The world economy is experiencing a very strong but uneven recovery, with many emerging market and developing economies … Global Economic Prospects. The Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic …

Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a …

alleviation. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …

Cities in the developing world are rapidly expanding, boosting countries' economies, reducing poverty, and fueling … range of shocks and stresses that cities may encounter. The flagship report -- co-authored by the World Bank Group and the … poverty and promoting shared prosperity. And while, over the last five years, the World Bank Group has financed more than USD …

This paper presents the main findings of the 2017 survey on national development banks that the World Bank conducted in … collaboration with the World Federation of Development Financing Institutions. Sixty-four development banks from different parts of … the world, mainly from middle-income countries, participated in the survey …

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which … safety and doing what they can to prevent students' learning loss using remote learning. At the same time, countries need to …

This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …

availability of safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19, the World Bank together with WHO, UNICEF, the Global Fund, and Gavi …