Africa lack access to the essential opportunities electricity provides: modern healthcare, quality education, greater quality ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 9, 2025 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a 10-year euro-denominated benchmark bond maturing in January ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 7, 2025 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a 7-year benchmark bond that matures in January 2032. The ...

WASHINGTON, January 07, 2025 – The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors discussed a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Namibia, which outlines the World Bank Group’s strategy in the ...

The Mozambique Contingent Emergency Response Project (CERP) is an Investment Project Financing (IPF) through which emergency response expenditures can be financed with funds repurposed through the ...

Massimiliano Paolucci is the World Bank Country Manager for Kosovo and for North Macedonia. This op-ed was originally published in Albanian in the special New Year's print edition of the newspaper ...

As JSDF celebrates its 25th anniversary, it continues to help communities build resilience and pilot development solutions to the challenges of today.

The Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for Armenia explores intertwined climate and development challenges, presenting a comprehensive roadmap toward a cleaner environment, energy security, ...

WASHINGTON, January 9, 2025—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on January 8 approved changes to the structure of the World Bank’s Accountability Mechanism (AM). These changes are aimed at ...

Working directly with communities, the JSDF has funded nearly 800 projects in more than 90 countries, improving the lives and livelihoods of millions of people since 2000 In 2024, jointly with the ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

The region has made slow but steady progress in overcoming the imbalances created by the pandemic, including rising inflation pressures, global economic uncertainty, and higher debt; even poverty and ...