The Digital Malawi Project (2017-2024) supported by $72.4 million from the International Development Association, helped ...

Despite increasing food production over the past three decades, 58% of Africans remain food insecure. Transport is an ...

With World Bank support, Armenia has renovated and modernized medical facilities, purchased vital equipment, and trained staff to better screen and treat non-communicable diseases.

The Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) has two main aims. First, it reports on key developments over the past 12 months in Sri Lanka’s economy, places these in longer term and global contexts, and ...

01:08 Interview with guest, Franz Drees-Gross, World Bank Regional Director for Infrastructure, Western and Central Africa 07:05 Electrification success story and progress from Côte d'Ivoire 09:50 ...

In rural Cameroon, 75% of the population remains without electricity, even though many live near the grid. The Nachtigal Hydropower Plant financed by the World Bank Group together with partners, will ...

Poverty in Argentina is a persistent problem that defies easy solutions. A new World Bank study identifies four key factors or "poverty traps" that are preventing millions of Argentines from moving ...

North Macedonia’s Roma population, the country’s poorest community, has long been marginalized. 87% of the country’s Roma live in material deprivation—compared to 55% among the non-Roma population—and ...

Jimmy Ramírez, Commercial Manager at Cafés Especiales de El Paraíso (CAFEPSA) in Honduras. Latin America and the Caribbean needs more investment to reduce poverty, boost shared prosperity, and tackle ...

The Western Balkans 6 Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines how the region can boost climate adaptation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while continuing to deliver on broader ...

In 2017, Uzbekistan launched a major reform agenda for societal and economic transformation, breaking from its past as a largely state-led and isolated economy. A series of World Bank Development ...

Does artificial intelligence amount to a dystopian nightmare for the developing world, eliminating jobs and confirming the worse biases across societies? Or could it lead the way to a brighter future, ...