The government of Sri Lanka understood, when AHEAD was prepared, that for the country to advance to a higher level of economic development as a middle income country and generate good jobs and shared ...

The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Tsutomu Yamamoto as Managing Director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), home of the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform.

Carolina Rendón has been appointed as the World Bank’s Resident Representative for the Dominican Republic. She succeeds Alexandria Valerio, who held the position for the past five years.

Scaling Water Reuse: A Tipping Point for Municipal and Industrial Use, makes the case for investing in the treatment and reuse of alternative water sources to create fit-for-purpose supply for ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rationalizing tax incentives could improve effectiveness of tax policies, and pave the way for future tax rate reductions, while ensuring adequate resources ...

The World Bank today approved a US$300 million project to enhance Argentina tax administration’s efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency, by simplifying procedures, automating administrative ...

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, according to the World Bank’s latest ...

The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity.

Explore Data Dashboards Access dashboards showing data disaggregated by clusters and by country displaying tables and graphs with the latest CPIA data and trends.

Since 2006, The World Bank's annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Report has been a guide for countries, policymakers, and investors, identifying key trends and best practices ...

The report titled Towards Resilient and Prosperous Cities in India, prepared in close collaboration with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, states that with India’s urban population expected ...

4.7 million Malagasy students in pre-primary and primary education, 135,000 teachers, and 27,000 public primary schools across the country will directly benefit from the newly approved Transforming ...