Remarks by World Bank Group President Ajay Banga at the AgriConnect Flagship Event during the 2025 Annual Meetings ...

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025 – The latest World Bank economic report on the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (MENAAP) points to an improved economic outlook for the region, with ...

Global gas flaring surged for a second year in a row, wasting about $63 billion in lost energy and setting back efforts to manage emissions and boost energy security and access. The roadmap reveals ...

Madagascar, the world’s fifth-largest island, lies in the Indian Ocean off the coast of southern Africa. Its population, estimated at 30.3 million in 2023, faces persistently high poverty. Growth is ...

Despite improvements in life expectancy and reductions in infant and maternal mortality, Haiti still faces many health challenges. Providing better health coverage for the poorest will require an ...

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 ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022: Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia shows the country has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, but that some recent gains ...

In the last 15 years, Bangladesh’s annual per capita plastic consumption in urban areas tripled to 9 kg in 2020 from 3 kg in 2005. COVID-19 pandemic has worsened plastic pollution. A large part of the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread with alarming speed, infecting millions and bringing economic activity to a near-standstill as countries imposed tight restrictions on movement to halt the spread of ...

The National Statistics Office (NSO) of Mongolia and the World Bank today announced their joint official poverty rate estimation for 2020. The two organizations have collaborated on poverty ...

Rising inequality, lack of opportunity, discrimination, and exclusion are fueling grievances and perceptions of injustice. Climate change, demographic change, migration, digital transformation, ...