The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Paschal Donohoe as Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer.

In Dédougou, a small city in western Burkina Faso, Fatimata Ouarme leads Sanigna. Her small enterprise of 15 workers transforms baobab fruit pulp—prized for its tangy flavor and rich nutritional value ...

KATHMANDU, November 14, 2025 — Nepal has received a payment of $9.4 million from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) for reducing approximately 1.88 million tons of carbon ...

We cannot end poverty on a livable planet with half the population excluded from opportunity.

The Quarterly Public Sector Debt Statistics (QPSD) database, jointly developed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, brings together detailed quarterly public sector debt data of ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

Social protection and labor systems promote better employment, prevent income loss, and protect people facing shocks and transitions. These programs are not just about helping people get by, they help ...

The latest World Bank's Country Climate and Development summary report, now covering 93 economies, shows that investments in ...

WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 7, 2025 — Following Hurricane Melissa, the Government of Jamaica will receive a full payout of $150 million under its catastrophe insurance coverage with the World Bank, backed by ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022: Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia shows the country has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, but that some recent gains ...

More than 45 percent of tourists to Nepal visit the country’s wealth of natural resources, including snow-capped mountains, abundant rivers, and sub-tropical forests. The country’s significant ...