Data News

Most commodity prices tumbled in February—Pink Sheet

Energy prices plunged nearly 13 percent in February, led by natural gas in Europe (-20%) and crude oil (-13%), the World Bank Pink Sheet reported.

John Baffes, Maria Hazel Macadangdang|

Women entrepreneurs needed—stat!

As we reflect on the progress to advance gender equality, we take a closer look at women’s entrepreneurship. We turn to the World Bank Gender Data Portal for comprehensive sex-disaggregated…

Daniel Halim|
Gender

A big win for data users: World Bank unveils MIX Market database as open data

The MIX Market dataset, used to compare and analyze the performance of financial service providers (FSPs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in more than 100 developing markets, is now freely…

Omar Hadi, Bob Cull|
Financial Inclusion

How have women’s legal rights evolved over the last 50 years?

Today, women have just three-quarters of the legal rights of men. In 1970, it was less than half. The Women, Business and the Law 2020 report presented results from our recent effort to...

Tea Trumbic|
Gender

Living in a two-speed world: Extreme poverty is declining in most countries but stagnating in economies in fragility or conflict

A new report, “Fragility and Conflict: On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty,” applies the freshly updated World Bank classification criteria for economies in fragile and conflict-…

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Tara Vishwanath, Alexander Irwin|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Poverty