The World Bank is transforming logistics through rail—cutting emissions, lowering costs, and boosting jobs for greener, more ...

Over 514,000 households in Mozambique gained electricity through ProEnergia, transforming lives with schools, health centers ...

In Guatemala, 46% of children under the age of two suffer from chronic malnutrition. This means that nearly half of Guatemalan children have their physical, cognitive, and economic futures compromised ...

In response to a widespread and worsening water crisis, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are taking strong steps to ensure a water-secure future for their citizens. In the process, ...

The World Bank Group is committed to meeting the needs of developing countries with smart development solutions. We are supporting countries to build resilience to climate change so that they are less ...

Ineffective policies can persist, while potentially effective policies are often not adopted. The World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law explores why some policies fail to achieve ...

The HCI provides a new definition of human capital and quantifies the contribution of health and education to the productivity of the next generation of workers. Countries can use it to assess how ...

List of participating universities programs for the World Bank JJ/WBGSP.

The World Bank is a multidisciplinary institution that aspires to generate cross-cutting solutions to countries’ most complex development challenges. In the European Union, we have a strong ...

A Sahelian and landlocked country in Central Africa, Chad faces security challenges related to conflicts in neighboring countries, as well as the consequences of climate change, particularly the ...

Include Project Documents, Research & Publications from before 2000 View All “Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet” explores how the foundational natural endowments of land, air, and ...

As the world’s top exporter of cocoa and raw cashew nuts, a net exporter of oil, and with a significant manufacturing sector, Côte d’Ivoire is the largest economy in the West African Economic and ...