The Bank Group launched the 2020–25 Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Strategy with the aim of strengthening its ...

In July 2024, a new Theme Taxonomy was launched for all IBRD/IDA (the Bank) lending operations and Advisory Services and ...

Botswana stands at a critical juncture where climate action and sustainable development must be pursued together to secure ...

The rapid expansion of social pensions in emerging economies over recent decades has been one of the defining features of ...

The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) provide a crosscutting look at how countries’ development prospects, and the job opportunities they offe ...

Labor markets in Central America and the Dominican Republic face limited direct impacts from technological advancements ...

Burundi is a small landlocked country bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the west, Rwanda to the north and Tanzania to the east and south. Burundi is endowed with deposits of ...

This paper synthesizes recent evidence on refugee self-reliance in low- and middle-income countries, clarifying definitions, ...

Quotas, which expand opportunities, can effectively increase women’s descriptive representation when properly designed and ...

The Mining Sector Diagnostic (MSD), conducted by the World Bank for Malawi, was commissioned by the Ministry of Mining and ...

The EnABLE Social Inclusion Framework for Results-Based Climate Finance Initiatives was devised as a key input into the Social Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan of the Enhancing Access to Benefits ...

This note presents the 10th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of October 2025 ...