The Energy Progress Report assesses achievements in the global quest for universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030. In 2023, the global effort to improve access ...

This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms ...

More developing economies are turning to off-budget and more complex borrowing arrangements in response to a tighter financing environment, making it harder to fully assess public debt exposures, ...

Rwanda's Journey to Job Creation A sunny June day in a Kigali market, a young girl named Joy sets out a small basket of oranges along the road. She had left school due to financial hardship, and now ...

Flows of foreign direct investment into developing economies have dwindled to the lowest level since 2005 amid rising trade ...

Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing economies—a key propellant of economic growth and higher living standards—have dwindled to the lowest level since 2005 amid rising trade and ...

China’s economy maintained growth momentum in early 2025, with real GDP expanding by 5.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter. Policy support helped boost consumption and spurred a pickup in home ...

Some women in Somalia have found work in its male-dominated construction industry, proving that skill, not gender, determines ...

The World Bank has updated its global poverty lines. This latest revision uses 2021 purchasing power parities, as well as updated national poverty lines that better capture countries’ household ...

The digital world is developing at a phenomenal pace. From AI tools at our fingertips, to advancements in energy, consumer technology, and connectivity: change is here. Harnessing these changes can ...

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2025 – Effective May 12, 2025, the arrears of approximately $15.5 million due to the International Development Association (IDA) by the Syrian Arab Republic have been cleared. The ...

Many of us take turning on a light switch or connecting our devices to a home Wi-Fi network for granted. If our phones need charging, we plug them in, if we want hot water we boil a kettle. These are ...