The Development Impact Group of the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC) generates high-quality and operationally relevant data and research to transform development policy, help ...

The World Bank approved a $846 million IBRD guarantee to mobilize $1.41 billion in long-term commercial financing for a major rail connectivity project along Kazakhstan’s section of Trans-Caspian ...

A number of the World Bank Group’s clients in emerging markets have reached out to us as the conflict in the Middle East has started to impact commodity prices and logistics. We are working with ...

External debt of developing countries jumped 5.5% to a record $9.4 trillion in 2025, the fastest pace since 2021 and about four times the 2022–24 average, according to the World Bank Group’s ...

About The World Bank The World Bank Group has a bold vision: to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. In more than 100 countries, the World Bank Group provides financing, advice, and ...

The HIPC and related Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) programs have relieved 37 participating countries of more than $100 billion in debt. To date, 37 countries — 31 of them in Africa — have ...

The World Bank says Laos is emerging from an economic slowdown, and further reforms in business, finance and infrastructure would help sustain progress ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Digital transformation can unlock enormous economic and social gains—but without strong cybersecurity foundations, these gains are fragile. The Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy ...

For more than five decades, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, ...

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Energy security drives jobs, growth, and investment. Learn how reducing gas flaring can strengthen power systems, lower costs, and support development. In December 2025, GFMR partnered with ...