Childcare services are critical to empowering women, reducing poverty, and promoting equitable development in West Africa.

MENA's 2025 update spotlighted private sector reforms as catalysts for jobs, resilience, and shared prosperity.

To help China address these challenges, the World Bank approved a $150 million loan in 2019 for the Forest Ecosystem Improvement in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Basin Program. Implemented in ...

The tourism and hospitality sector are a key driver of Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, and a major source of foreign reserves and jobs: the sector has the potential to add 168 billion dollars in ...

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, per the World Bank’s latest Commodity Market ...

With the rapidly growing population, 5 percent annual growth is needed simply to keep the number of poor from rising. Halving severe poverty by 2015 will require annual growth of more than 7 ...

The Caribbean region faces a growing youth employment challenge, as outdated infrastructure and limited digital skills continue to constrain economic opportunities and resilience. For much of the last ...

This report is intended to support the government of Sierra Leone in the development of a risk management action plan and for disaster risk financing investments. It was compiled with extensive ...

The World Bank has appointed Ndiamé Diop as the new Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa, effective today. In line with the World Bank's efforts to be closer to clients and enhance service ...

Tourism is a promising sector, with the potential for inclusive and sustainable growth and increased employment. According to ...

While the Philippines has been one of the most dynamic economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, with gross national income (GNI) per capita more than tripling, and poverty declining ...

But AI may be a crucial path to greater productivity in emerging markets - or, like other recent waves of technological change, it may widen the gap between low- and high-income workers. These effects ...