Ethiopia has made significant progress in energy access in recent years; however, despite a 94% electrification rate in urban ...

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 ...

Here’s an update as we wrap up a two-week mission in Africa, concluding key discussions at Mining Indaba and reflecting on progress in the World Bank’s mining program, alongside IFC and MIGA. Three ...

Sustainable economic growth continues to offer the surest path out of poverty. The World Bank supports investments in countries that underpin long-term growth and that help to meet the needs of their ...

The Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is a comprehensive overview of Nepal’s past economic performance, current challenges and prospects ahead. The latest CEM 'Climbing Higher: Toward a Middle Income ...

The Investment Climate team provides evidence-based support to help countries foster an “investment-grade” business environment, maximize the benefits of private investment, and secure a share in ...

Small States face unique development challenges. Their small population and economic base make them particularly vulnerable to external shocks like economic crises, commodity price fluctuation, ...

There are numerous definitions of financial stability. Most of them have in common that financial stability is about the absence of system-wide episodes in which the financial system fails to function ...

October 29, 2024 — Global commodity prices are set to tumble to a five-year low in 2025 amid an oil glut that is so large that it is likely to limit the price effects even of a wider conflict in the ...

An economic analysis of the 2019 forest and land fires and haze (Page 7) Commodity prices continued declining in Q3 (Page 15) State Budget 2020 – Government sets optimistic growth targets for revenue ...

The Digital Citizen Engagement (CE) Catalog is a comprehensive resource designed to support World Bank staff, governments officials, and civil society organizations (CSOs) in leveraging digital tools ...

The Program for Asia Connectivity and Trade, or PACT, is a trust fund administered by the World Bank and supported by the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. Trust fund ...