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.

Investing in health drives job creation and economic growth, highlighting its pivotal role in building resilient societies and fostering prosperity.

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 ...

The World Bank In Cambodia Over the two decades before COVID-19 struck in 2020, Cambodia blossomed economically. Having reached lower middle-income status in 2015, it set its signs on attaining upper ...

Climate change and food and nutrition insecurity pose two of the greatest development challenges of our time. Yet a more sustainable food system can not only heal the planet, but ensure food security ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

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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.

In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, on a narrow atoll barely rising above the sea, sits one of the most remarkable pieces of infrastructure in the world, not because it is the largest, or the busiest, ...

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 ...

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