The World Bank’s Digital Progress and Trends 2025 report explores how AI is reshaping economies and societies, highlights ...

Artificial Intelligence presents a timely and powerful tool to help reimagine agricultural transformation in ways that are more productive, sustainable, and inclusive. This report presents a ...

The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Paschal Donohoe as Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer.

KATHMANDU, November 14, 2025 — Nepal has received a payment of $9.4 million from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) for reducing approximately 1.88 million tons of carbon ...

Social protection and labor systems promote better employment, prevent income loss, and protect people facing shocks and transitions. These programs are not just about helping people get by, they help ...

The Quarterly Public Sector Debt Statistics (QPSD) database, jointly developed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, brings together detailed quarterly public sector debt data of ...

To date, the World Bank has supported over US$3 billion worth of projects in Jordan and Lebanon to help refugees and host communities. These projects support jobs and economic opportunities, health, ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) works with public- and private-sector clients to accelerate gender equality to end poverty on a livable planet. Growing evidence shows how removing gender barriers unlocks ...

(11/4/25) The energy price index fell 3.7% in October, driven by a 5.1% decline in crude oil prices, partially offset by a 7.5% rise in U.S. natural gas prices. The non-energy price index changed ...

Investments in building climate resilience can deliver benefits equivalent to 150 million jobs by 2050, according to the World Bank report, “Jobs in a Changing Climate: Insights from World Bank Group ...

Bulgaria has undergone a significant transformation over the past three decades. It has transformed from a highly centralized, planned economy to an open, market-based, high-income economy securely ...

Stéphane Hallegatte is Chief Climate Economist at the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 2012 after 10 years of academic research in environmental economics and climate science for Météo-France, ...