Over the next 10 to 15 years, 1.2 billion young people in developing countries will reach working age. Current projections suggest that only about 400 million jobs will be created. That gap—nearly 800 ...

Across the region, the World Bank Group is supporting country-led reforms, strategic investments, and initiatives to strengthen power systems. In the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, the ...

The World Bank Group is scaling smart development solutions, boosting resilience for 425 million people worldwide. From restoring coastlines to growing drought-resilient crops, simple solutions are ...

For the first time, the latest Women, Business and the Law report assesses not only the degree of equality in laws on the books, but also the extent to which those laws are enforced. Legal experts ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022: Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia shows the country has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, but that some recent gains ...

The digital revolution has reached every part of the world, every aspect of society and commerce. The agriculture and food system is also ripe for a transformation. What’s Cooking: Digital ...

As nations commit to achieving universal health coverage by 2030, there is a growing acknowledgement that access to services is not enough. Improvement in health care delivery requires a deliberate ...

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More than half of children in countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) experience “learning poverty” – they cannot read and understand an age-appropriate text by age 10. This is preventing ...

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the expected demand for the Middle Corridor, a multimodal rail and maritime corridor linking Chinese and European markets via Central Asia and the ...