The 2022 IMF/World Bank Group Annual Meetings: Unity in a time of crises
The worst global food crisis in a decade was one of the top issues discussed at the 12th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization last month. It is a crisis made worse by the growing…
Today, 4.4 billion people— just over half the world’s population—live in cities. In just the next three decades, two out of every three people on the planet will live in cities. Cities are the…
ecosystems, food systems, East Asia and Pacific, pandemic, climate change, COVID-19
As devastating as it has been, the coronavirus pandemic was an object lesson in the power of policymakers to respond effectively to a catastrophe.
Countries in the East Asia and Pacific region will benefit from cooperation in three major areas: vaccine deployment, reviving sectors of the regional economy, and building on their close…
A multi-dimensional approach is needed to put Egypt on the path to inclusive and green development, to protect the poor and strengthen human capital, to help create private sector jobs, and to…
A new World Bank report, Oceans for Prosperity: Reforms for a Blue Economy in Indonesia, details the status of, and trends, and opportunities towards a blue economy in Indonesia, building on the…
Ecosystem accounting can measure and build our understanding of nature’s ability to provide critical benefits that underpin human well-being.
World Bank Group funds projects to rein in pollution at every stage of plastic value chain.