The Global Environment Facility, the World Bank, and IUCN today announced they had established the Save Our Species (SOS) initiative with more than $US10 million in...
China’s growth has moderated somewhat to a still healthy pace, with a shifting composition, according to the World Bank’s latest China Quarterly Update released today. The...
In the past year, governments in 117 economies carried out 216 regulatory reforms aimed at making it easier to start and operate a business, strengthening transparency...
WASHINGTON DC, NOVEMBER 9, 2010 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$74.7 million loan to support a program designed by the Honduran...
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick and Singapore Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam today joined senior public and private sector leaders from Asia to launch...
In a history-making move this week, Bangladesh, Niger and Tajikistan were awarded a total of $270 million for first-of-a-kind country-wide plans for resilience against climate impacts....
The World Bank’s Africa Director for Sustainable Development, Mr Jamal Saghir, ended a five-day visit in Cameroon this week during which he discussed with Cameroonian authorities...
Open markets play a pivotal role in supporting growth and job creation, says a new joint report by the OECD, the International Labor Organization, the World...
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$150 million loan today for the Dominican Republic to support the introduction of a results-based accountability system...
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group, announced today that the agency’s Council of Governors has approved substantial changes to...