On the road to crisis recovery, IDA welcomes Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Georgia as new donors

The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) is the largest and most effective platform for fighting extreme poverty in the world’s lowest-income countries. As new IDA donors,…

Antonella Bassani, Akihiko Nishio |
Poverty

How digital public infrastructure supports empowerment, inclusion, and resilience

Digital public infrastructure can enable essential society-wide functions and services such as identification, payments, and data exchange.

Vyjayanti T Desai, Jonathan Marskell, Georgina Marin, Minita Varghese |
Digital Development, Financial Inclusion, Governance, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships

The 2018 Fragility Forum: Managing risks for peace and stability

[[tweetable]]In just under two weeks, about 1, 000 people will gather in Washington D.C. for the 2018 Fragility Forum[[/tweetable]]. Policy makers from developed and developing countries,…

Franck Bousquet |
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Urban Development

The way out of poverty and corruption is paved with good governance

For the first time in history, the number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen below 10%. The world has never been as ambitious about development as it is today. After adopting the…

Sri Mulyani Indrawati |
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Governance, Poverty, Digital Development

Powering up Central and South Asia

Can One Country's Electricity Surplus Be Another Country's Gain? The opening ceremonies in Dushanbe, Tajikistan starting Wednesday for construction works on the CASA-1000 project mark an…

Annette Dixon |
Energy, Trade, Water