After engendering one of the world’s most successful economic transformations of the past 25 years, Vietnamese institutions must be modernized. They have become a major impediment to the nation’s…

Using the latest machine learning technology, Tanzania’s Resilience Academy participants helped build a comprehensive map of the city’s trees.

From report to action: Rapid diagnostics for disaster risk management of health systems

Nepal's economy is expected to grow by 3.7 percent in the current fiscal year and 4.1 percent in FY2022/23, led by a recovery of the services sector amid high COVID-19 vaccination rates.

Beyond its potential to delay restructuring talks or even send an economy into tailspin, hidden debt also prevents borrowers and lenders from making informed and responsible financing decisions.…

In September 2018, Egypt embarked on a major education reform, with the aim to “bring learning back to the classroom” and equip students with higher order thinking skills. During the school visits…

In the MENA region, Lebanon now joins nine other non-high-income countries (HICs) for which MPI statistics have been produced in the past decade. The addition of Lebanon favorably raises the…

The World Bank's Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (EQOSOGI) report helps fill an important gap in data by assessing the laws and regulations that impact LGBTI people.…

The acceleration of digitization has created new opportunities for scale, innovation, and spillovers. This is spurring the “industrialization” of services and increasingly driving economic growth…

Addressing social inclusion and equity issues for the vulnerable is central to two of the World Bank’s overarching goals — ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.