In recognition of International Women’s Day, we highlight the accomplishments of five leaders who have delivered much needed regulatory reforms benefiting entrepreneurs.
Profiles of women reformers making it easier to do business around the world
For the poor and vulnerable of the world, jobs are key to ending poverty and driving development. But not all jobs are equally transformational. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / World Bank Jobs are what…
Rural areas are changing rapidly, but the shift does not affect women and men in the same way. In the process of rural development and transformation, as employment for both women and men expands…
CIF launches annual report that marks 2015 as year of achievements Photo: World Bank Group This is Morocco’s Noor 1 concentrated solar power plant, the first phase of what will eventually be the…
Also available in: Français | العربية A boat trip from Port Elizabeth to Kingstown, in the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is a one-hour trip that locals take several…
“Maybe in the Middle East … but in our part of the world, there is no gender inequity.” As an Egyptian, I wasn’t surprised to hear such assertions from colleagues when I arrived in the Eastern…
When you want to put money, ideas, innovation, and hard work together to increase food security, there’s nowhere better than the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program – GAFSP. Don’t just…