The World Bank and the Government of Sri Lanka today signed the Second Resilience, Stability, and Economic Turnaround (RESET) Development Policy Operation (DPO) for $200 million. This is the second ...

Developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) is continuing to grow faster than the rest of the world in 2024, but slower than before the pandemic, the World Bank said in its semi-annual economic outlook for ...

Economies do better at enacting regulations to improve the national business climate than they do in providing the public ...

What does the world need to do to become “Business Ready”? A healthy business environment and strong private sector are ...

Titled “Morocco 2040 - Emerging by Investing in Intangible Capital”, the Morocco Country Economic Memorandum 2017 is a comprehensive report aimed at assessing Morocco’s recent economic performance and ...

Benin's geographic position at the intersection of two important regional corridors - the Abidjan-Lagos corridor and the Cotonou-Niamey corridor - makes it an important commercial and tourism ...

The World Bank's Prospects Group conducts in-depth analysis of key global macroeconomic developments and their impact on World Bank member countries. The Prospects Group leads the World Bank’s ...

Good, inclusive jobs are the surest pathway out of poverty. A productive private sector that operates on a level playing field - one that provides jobs for all walks of society - is key to ending ...

Today, an estimated 250 million children around the world are unable to read and write, even after spending three or more years in school. Improving learning outcomes requires strategic reforms and ...

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable ...

This toolkit provides a robust approach for project teams to enhance resilience impact by embedding resilience attributes into the project design, and by strengthening resilience monitoring during ...

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable ...