Childcare services are critical to empowering women, reducing poverty, and promoting equitable development in West Africa.

To help China address these challenges, the World Bank approved a $150 million loan in 2019 for the Forest Ecosystem Improvement in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Basin Program. Implemented in ...

The citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) aspire to a future of rising living standards, good jobs, better infrastructure and public services, a healthy, sustainable environment and becoming ...

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century. In 2020, economic activity contracted in 90 percent of countries, the world economy shrank by about 3 percent ...

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2025 - The World Bank has today approved the first phase of the Multiphase Programmatic Approach (MPA) Cameroon Water Security Program. The overall program objective is to ...

Recent GDP growth rates have been strong, supporting Croatia’s accelerated income convergence with the EU. Over the last three years, average GDP growth reached 4.8%, consistently outpacing average ...

SOFIA, May 8, 2025 —The World Bank signed today two Reimbursable Advisory Services Agreements with the Bulgarian government aimed at boosting education and businesses. The signing ceremony took place ...

Reliable, usable, high-quality statistics are vital for global prosperity and progress. The Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) provide an open-source framework for assessing the performance of ...

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2025—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved on May 1st a EUR 79.90 million loan and a EUR 2.89 million grant to support Bosnia and Herzegovina’s National Energy and ...

The finance ministers have set up and built a truly unique partnership for regional development in the Horn of Africa, one of the most promising parts of the world. The Horn of Africa Initiative ...