Sustainable cities are resilient cities that are able to adapt to, mitigate, and promote economic, social, and environmental change. Sustainable development encompasses all aspects of a city’s healthy ...

The Pandemic Fund’s Governing Board approved a grant envelope of $500 million for its third round of funding to help low- and ...

An economic analysis of the 2019 forest and land fires and haze (Page 7) Commodity prices continued declining in Q3 (Page 15) State Budget 2020 – Government sets optimistic growth targets for revenue ...

More inclusive growth is critical to accelerate progress in achieving shared prosperity. Around one-fifth of the world’s population lives in countries with high inequality. Today, high levels of ...

Evoke is a crash course in changing the world. An award-winning educational experience that uses project-based learning, game mechanics, graphic novel content and storytelling designed to engage young ...

2017 is the 70th anniversary of the signing of the World Bank’s first loan – a Reconstruction Loan to France in 1947. To mark the occasion, the World Bank Group Archives has publicly released records ...

Social assistance/Social safety net programs are non-contributory transfers in cash or in-kind and are usually targeted at the poor and vulnerable. Some programs are focused on improving chronic ...

The Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is a comprehensive overview of Nepal’s past economic performance, current challenges and prospects ahead. The latest CEM 'Climbing Higher: Toward a Middle Income ...

In every country, some groups confront barriers that prevent them from fully participating in political, economic, and social life. These groups may be excluded not only through legal systems, land, ...

Countries from all regions of the world have applied SABER tools and have used SABER for policy dialogue and reform (see all relevant documents under Publications in the RELATED section). Since its ...

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Financial sector is the set of institutions, instruments, markets, as well as the legal and regulatory framework that permit transactions to be made by extending credit. Fundamentally, financial ...