Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty ...

Global growth is projected to slow to 2.3 percent in 2025, nearly half a percentage point lower than the rate that had been ...

The Joint MDB Water Security Financing Report 2024 marks a milestone in collective action by ten Multilateral Development ...

This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms, stronger oversight of unconventional debt, broader loan-level reporting, ...

World Bank assessment finds conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty faster than anywhere else, intensifying acute ...

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 ...

About the Finance and Prosperity Report Finance and Prosperity is an annual World Bank report that examines financial sector developments and vulnerabilities in low- and middle-income countries. These ...

Fifty-eight-year-old widow Arza Parveen wasted no time building a life of resilience and independence after her husband was injured in war. Her family was left without financial support. With a ...

1. What is Development Policy Financing? World Bank assistance can be provided through development policy financing (DPF), which provides non-earmarked funds for development policy operations (DPO).

High Trade and Investment Barriers Pose Threat to Mobilizing Financing for Development WASHINGTON, June 16, 2025 — Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing economies—a key propellant ...

Report | Executive summary | Charts and data | Press release Foreign direct investment (FDI)—an important source of external financing for emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs)—has weakened ...

The Tamil Nadu Rural Transformation Project is helping to address the financial challenges faced by aspirational women entrepreneurs. Through the Matching Grants Program, women like Janaki received ...