Financial Sector

Indonesia will need to continue to develop its financial system if it is to break the middle-income ceiling.

Last month, the World Bank issued a five-year outcome bond that aims to provide clean drinking water to around two million school children in Vietnam. A lack of clean drinking water causes an…

In advance of the next meeting of the Sovereign Debt Roundtable on April 12, I want to provide a quick update on recent developments and reiterate my call for prompt action toward debt…

Cities around the world experienced 5 percent increase in expenditures and 10 percent decrease in revenues during 2020, on average. Read the latest World Bank blog on the case of Pereira, Colombia…

Digital financial services are one way to help families manage school fee payments so they can keep their children in school.