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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.
Over the past decade, the African Centers of Excellence (ACE) have trained thousands of students in key fields such as health, agriculture, digital technology, energy, and the environment. But behind ...
Over the past decade, the World Bank’s Trade Facilitation Support Program (TFSP) has worked with 58 developing countries around the world to transform their trade environments.
Investing in health drives job creation and economic growth, highlighting its pivotal role in building resilient societies and fostering prosperity.
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 ...
In 2024, Belize, a small Caribbean country grappling with increasing climate risks that strain its economy, gained access to concessional financing from the World Bank’s International Development ...
For years, Jamaica has been highly exposed to natural disasters, from hurricanes and floods to earthquakes and landslides.
World Development Report 2022: FINANCE for an Equitable RecoveryToday’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And ...
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) are two of the five institutions of the World Bank Group (WBG). Each institution ...
Latest news and information from the World Bank and its development work in Cote d'Ivoire. Access Cote d'Ivoire’s economy facts, statistics, project information, development research from experts and ...
The World Bank Group’s new engagement strategy for Yemen remains focused, as previously, on preserving basic services and the institutions that deliver them, supporting people’s livelihoods and the ...
Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions The 2025 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2024. It identifies key policy trends in ...