China’s economy maintained growth momentum in early 2025, with real GDP expanding by 5.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter. Policy support helped boost consumption and spurred a pickup in home ...

Carbon pricing revenues exceeded $100 billion in 2024, according to a new World Bank report released today. Over half of this revenue generated for public budgets was earmarked for environment, ...

Heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty are expected to drive global growth down this year to its slowest pace since 2008 outside of outright global recessions, according to the World Bank’s ...

Over 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water, and 3.5 billion lack proper sanitation—key risks for child mortality and stunting. The World Bank helps countries improve water and sanitation ...

PORT MORESBY, May 30, 2025 – More than 375,000 children in some of the most underserved communities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) will benefit from a new landmark education project that will improve ...

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $250 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA)* as the first phase of a $1 billion Inga 3 Development Program.

In rural communities across Bangladesh, dedicated champions like Rita Majumder are quietly driving change. A mother and ...

After benefiting from 288 million liters of drinking water, Bamako is expanding access to drinking water services on its left ...

NAIROBI, May 27, 2025—Kenya’s public debt remains at high risk of distress, with interest payments absorbing about a third of tax revenue. Reforms to strengthen fiscal sustainability in an equitable ...

In Zambia, less than half of the country’s population of approximately 16 million had adequate sanitation in 2014. Lusaka, the capital, faced severe sanitation issues, with frequent disease outbreaks ...

"Public procurement may not always make the headlines, but it is one of the most powerful levers for change. When done right, it empowers schools and hospitals, builds roads and bridges, delivers ...

Food insecurity is a persistent challenge in Africa. The number of people that are food insecure increased by 60 percent between 2014 and 2023. On the African continent, food supply chains are long ...