WASHINGTON, May 14, 2024—New World Bank data finds that private infrastructure investment in low- and middle-income countries totaled $86 billion in 2023. Investments declined 5% compared with 2022, ...

The primary source of remittance data on the international stage is the reports published by KNOMAD. KNOMAD (Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) is a branch of the World Bank ...

Latest data released by the World Bank shows the tale of two countries - India and Pakistan - and their journey to battle poverty - a colonial inheritance. The comparison, especially over the last 15 ...

The World Bank Group is radically changing the way it tracks results, putting the focus squarely on lives improved rather than money out the door. For the first time, the work of all World Bank Group ...

Global gas flaring volumes continued to increase and reached a new high last year, pointing to insufficient efforts to curb the polluting practice that is turbo-charging global warming, according to a ...

The World Bank supported 64 countries in building cyber resilience between 2014 and 2024. Between 2015 and 2018, the World Bank helped establish Bhutan’s national Computer Security Incident Response ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

New World Bank data in Lebanon reveal alarming figures of over 70 percent of the population experiencing multidimensional poverty. This highlights the failures of World Bank and EU-backed means-tested ...

Between 2003 and 2024, World Bank support has helped to significantly improve solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries. This has been achieved through holistic financing approaches ...