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World Bank Country Manager for Romania Elisabetta Capannelli and her daughter, who was an orphan in Manilla before joining Capannelli's family. Reeling from a long year of work and toil,…
Emilienne Isenady poses while showing off the crops on her land in Lascahobas, Central Plateau, Haiti. “If I knew that avocados had value, I would plant more of them, ” says Emilienne Isenady, a…
The European Union (EU) has settled into a “new normal” of mediocre growth, with real GDP set to expand by about 2 percent in 2015 and in 2016. With sizeable unemployment and still not full…
[[tweetable]]What’s a major challenge for Romanian taxpayers?[[/tweetable]] They spend hours waiting in line at tax offices. In March 2014, with support of the World Bank, a Delivery Unit (DU)…
PISA measures the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics and science. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank Investing in people starts by ensuring that graduates…
Youth and Future Generations Day at COP21. Photo: Connect4Climate On December 3, 2015, hundreds of young people gathered at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to join leaders…
The Paris climate talks offer a once-in-a-generation opportunity to send the clear signal: We can build prosperity and support economic growth without carbon polluting the earth, and we must act…
Syrian refugee students listen to their school teacher during math classes. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank In Europe, the year 2015 will be remembered as the year of the “refugee crisis.”…
A team of NAFA young professionals receives an award in recognition for their work to help Romanians register and pay taxes online [[tweetable]]Nobody likes paying taxes.[[/tweetable]] But taxes…