Data News

One in five people in the Middle East and North Africa now live in close proximity to conflict

A new report, Fragility and Conflict: On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty, shows the increasing overlap between extreme poverty and conditions of fragility, conflict, and violence,…

Paul Corral, Nandini Krishnan|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Poverty

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