GIA’s vision is to be the agent of positive change to help the World Bank Group achieve its goals. Our mission is to protect and enhance the value of the World Bank Group by providing independent, ...

Developing economies—which fuel 60 percent of global growth—are projected to finish the first quarter of the 21st century ...

Africa lack access to the essential opportunities electricity provides: modern healthcare, quality education, greater quality ...

Interested to learn about the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF)? The World Bank offers an online course entitled “ESF Fundamentals” aimed at environmental and social practitioners who are ...

Over the past two and a half decades, Thailand has made great progress in expanding basic education, closing the gap in attendance between socio-economic groups through sustained efforts to expand ...

Africa’s working age population is expected to grow by 450 million people, or close to 70 percent, by 2035. New analysis shows that without effective policy change, there will only be about 100 ...

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 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference on central issues of agricultural and food policies held each year in Berlin. Hosted by the Federal Ministry of Food and ...

Many landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) face market-access issues specific to their geography. The United Nation's Almaty Programme of Action, adopted in 2003, addresses these issues head-on.

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 ...

Below you will find our Country Learning Poverty Briefs, which highlights learning poverty and its accompanying indicators in more than hundred a countries. This version includes the latest available ...

This series of four policy notes provides a snapshot of health and nutrition in Lao PDR, with each note respectively focusing on government health spending, maternal and child expenditure, health care ...