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.

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

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 ...

Latest news and information from the World Bank and its development work in Ukraine. Access Ukraine’s economy facts, statistics, project information, development research from experts and latest news.

Finance and Prosperity is an annual World Bank report that examines financial sector developments and vulnerabilities in low- and middle-income countries.

Jobs and Growth Jobs are the most reliable pathway out of poverty. Sustained and inclusive economic growth, driven by a productive private sector, creates more and better jobs and leads to increases ...

For years, Jamaica has been highly exposed to natural disasters, from hurricanes and floods to earthquakes and landslides.

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 ...

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, ...

Inequality and Shared Prosperity More broad-based economic growth is essential to accelerate progress in boosting shared prosperity.

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, ...

Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions The 2025 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2024. It identifies key policy trends in ...