What does the world need to do to become “Business Ready”? A healthy business environment and strong private sector are foundations of economic growth: generating jobs, boosting investment and ...

Economies do better at enacting regulations to improve the national business climate than they do in providing the public ...

As the old saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. But of course, what you measure is important too. In this episode of The Development Podcast, we explore why the World Bank Group ...

The Offshore Wind Roadmap for Romania provides strategic analysis and outlines a realistic vision for the development of a successful offshore wind industry. Backed by a good wind resource, ...

BUCHAREST, September 27, 2024—The European Commission and the World Bank Group supported the Government of Romania to publish a new roadmap today to help realize the vast potential of offshore wind in ...

Roughly 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity. The World Bank Group, together with the African Development Bank, has committed to providing access to electricity to 300 ...

NEW YORK, September 26, 2024 - The United Nations, European Commission, and World Bank Group will make gender equality and ending violence against women and girls a priority of their cooperation to ...

An increase in exports is associated with higher employment levels, labor earnings and productivity levels between 1995 and 2019. In developing economies, participation in global value chains reduced ...

Dominican Republic, Chile and multilateral organizations highlighted education as a catalytic investment for the region's sustainable future NEW YORK, 25 September 2024 – On the sidelines of the 79th ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) Sanctions Board is seeking to fill the position of three Sanctions Board members (two positions for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and one ...

WASHINGTON, September 19, 2024—The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors has endorsed a new five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Romania. The framework aims to reduce poverty ...

Listen to Ghanaian poet Nora Anyidoho as she passionately supports the mission to bring electricity to the millions of people without power in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Bank Group, together with ...