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Chart: Annual green bond issuances, 2007-2014. © World Bank

CLIMATE FINANCE

Green Bonds: A Story of Market Growth and Innovation

Green bonds have created a new way for investors to achieve the return they need while also supporting climate-friendly development projects. The investor base in green bonds is expanding quickly, as the World Bank's new $600 million benchmark green bond shows.Read More »

A woman in Bangladesh counts money. © Zakir Hossein Chowdhury/2013 CGAP Photo Contest

FINANCIAL ACCESS

Forum Explores Latest Research
on Microcredit

While microcredit can be a valuable tool to help people expand business activities, it has not led to substantial reductions in poverty.

People in Kenya. © Curt Carnemark/World Bank

DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE

Does Demographic Change Pay a Dividend for Health and Nutrition?

Join an online conversation through March 6 about how countries can take advantage of demographic change to improve health and nutrition.

What's New

RELEASE

World Bank Board Discusses Inspection Panel Case in Ethiopia

Article

Afghanistan: Efficient Water Use Increases Agricultural Cultivation

Release

India: Insulate Utilities from State Interference

Article

Can Low-Cost Carriers Help Developing Countries Take Off?

Release

World Bank Supports Kosovo
in Extending Internet in Rural Areas

Release

Ebola: Liberia, Japan to Launch Psychological Support Project

Blogs

Finding the future: Building the case and supporting effective carbon pricing

Rachel Kyte

Unions and the challenge
of informal work

Nigel Twose

What will lower oil prices mean for Europe
and Central Asia?

Mizuho Kida

Helping civil society build peace and restore trust

Alua Kennedy

2015 Spring Meetings

IDA: World Bank's Fund
for the World's Poorest »

IEG Independent Evaluation Group »

Highlights

Video: Driving toward a Better Future in Bangladesh

VIDEO

Driving toward a Better Future
in Bangladesh

Georgia: Seizing the Opportunity to Prosper

VIDEO

Georgia: Seizing the Opportunity to Prosper

Video: Music Is Ticket to a Better Life for Brazilian Poor

VIDEO

Music Is Ticket to a Better Life for Brazilian Poor

DATA

Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide

Results

© World Bank

Azerbaijan

Railroads: The Missing Link?

Investments to modernize the rail system are benefiting oil industries and markets to the west.

© Maxim Zolotukhin/World Bank

Europe and Central Asia

Raising the Quality of Education

World Bank is helping reform the secondary education student assessment system in Kazakhstan.

Events & Consultations

March 3

Kaushik Basu: Law, Economics, and the Republic of Beliefs

1:30-3 p.m. ET/18:30-20:00 GMT

March 6

Jeffrey Sachs: The Age
of Sustainable Development

12:30-2 p.m. ET/17:30-19:00 GMT

March 9

Chronic Poverty: Overlooked
in Latin America

9-11 a.m. ET/14:00-16:00 GMT

Publications

GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

Having Fiscal Space and Using It

EBOLA

The Economic Impact of Ebola on Sub-Saharan Africa:
Updated Estimates for 2015

WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2015

Mind, Society, and Behavior

DOING BUSINESS 2015

Going Beyond Efficiency

In depth

World Bank Annual Report 2014

World Bank Annual Report

Rice fields in a valley near Lao Cai, northern Vietnam. Photo: © Tran Thi Hoa/World Bank

Countries Look to 2015

Samuel Garouor is an Ebola survivor in Monrovia, Liberia. © Dominic Chavez/World Bank

World Bank Group
Helps Fight Ebola

Tracking Progress
in Real Time