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.

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 ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is an upper middle-income country which has accomplished a great deal since the mid-1990s. Today, it is an EU potential candidate country and is now embarking on a new growth ...

Formal MSME Finance Gap in Developing Countries What We Do A key area of the World Bank Group’s work is to improve SMEs’ access to finance and find innovative solutions to unlock sources of capital.

In 2024, Belize, a small Caribbean country grappling with increasing climate risks that strain its economy, gained access to ...

Description The World Bank strives to enhance public access to and use of data that it collects and publishes. The data are organized in datasets listed in The World Bank Data Catalog (the “Datasets”) ...

The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series encourages the exchange of ideas on development and quickly disseminates the findings of research in progress. This series is aimed at showcasing ...

Programs and InternshipsWestern and Central Africa Region of the World Bank Recruitment Drive The Western and Central Africa Region of the World Bank is looking for dedicated professionals with a ...

WHERE WE WORK The World Bank Group works in more than 170 countries, working with partners in the public and private sectors in their efforts to end poverty and tackle some of the most pressing ...

Thanks to its sound and predictable macroeconomic bases; solid financial system; poverty reduction and other policies, Paraguay has seen an extraordinary growth in the past few years, paving the way ...

Thailand is one of the great development success stories. Due to smart economic policies it has become an upper middle income economy and is making progress towards meeting the Millennium Development ...

Gender equality is essential for development. It can unlock economic productivity, reduce poverty, deepen social cohesion, and enhance wellbeing and prosperity. Women’s participation and leadership ...