Digital G2P payments offer more than convenience—they offer financial inclusion. Explore how the World Bank's G2Px initiative is transforming recipient experiences globally.

Georgina Marin, Minita Varghese, Ambrose Wong |

Learn about the importance of "building green" and adopting and enforcing improved building codes, to enhance safety and resilience in the face of natural disasters and climate change.…

H. Kit Miyamoto, Olivia Nielsen, Ommid Saberi, Guido Licciardi |

The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) has developed country profiles to assess the progress of developing PPP legal frameworks and carried out a comparative analysis of existing legal and…

Maude Vallée, Andrea Stucchi |

Infrastructure investments have a powerful and positive multiplier effect on the overall economy. Road infrastructure is crucial for sustainable economic growth, attracting business investment,…

Clotilde V. Minster, Jean-François Arvis, Nabil Samir, Dickson Effah |

With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), world leaders made a bold pledge in 2015 to leave no one behind on the path of development by 2030. Half-way to the target date, some 22 countries…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner, Umar Serajuddin |

A group of 30 students from Ngola Kanini Public Secondary School visited our World Bank office in Luanda this week. The students, ages 14-15 years, had the opportunity to interact with our…

Juan Carlos Alvarez |

Six years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica, among other countries, are still recovering from the impact of two of the deadliest hydrometeorological events in…

Francesco Varotto, Clara Ariza, Roberto Mendez, Naraya Carrasco, Suranga Kahandawa |

In seven East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries, policymakers prioritize secondary school completion over basic learning quality, while underestimating the levels of learning poverty. This…

Noah Yarrow, Rythia Afkar, Paul Cahu, Mary E. Breeding |

The financial protection gap against climate shocks and disasters is widening. Morocco was hit by an earthquake in September 2023, affecting more than 300,000 people in Marrakesh and surrounding…

Djibrilla Issa, Olivier Mahul |

What was it about trade that may have discouraged women in the labor force while informality was falling?

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Daniela Ruiz Zárate |