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 ...

The Heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed on broad principles for cooperation on pandemic preparedness.

With support from the World Bank and the Global Financing Facility (GFF), Nigeria strengthened primary health care and expanded critical services to women, children and adolescents. Despite progress, ...

WASHINGTON, October 3, 2024 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a financial package of $800 million in highly concessional loans to support Uzbekistan’s reform agenda geared ...

Djibouti has made significant progress in building, protecting, and utilizing its human capital over the past two decades. However, the World Bank’s Human Capital Index estimates that a Djiboutian ...

Despite progress over the past decades, child malnutrition remains high and adult obesity rates are increasing. Investments to scale up high-impact nutrition interventions could save the lives of 6.2 ...

FREETOWN, October 3, 2024 - The World Bank today launched the Sierra Leone Country Gender Action Plan (C-GAP), a comprehensive roadmap aimed at reducing gender inequalities and promoting gender ...