NILI DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – The wind is blowing, carrying the first chill of autumn to the village isolated by towering mountains. It is early morning in Meshe Payan village and a shepherd guides...
Date: March 6, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
COLOMBO/KABUL – The On-Farm Water Management Project (OFWMP) is the first winner in its country category of the South Asia Innovation Procurement Award for 2016-2017. The project won best innovative procurement...
Date: February 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Many countries struggle with ways to strengthen public service delivery. Cambodia is trying to learn from others – inside and outside of the country – and a recent workshop hosted...
Date: February 9, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
SHAHRISTAN DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – An elderly man, with dusty shoes, walks along the rocky road, carrying a package on his back. The road twists around the mountain, amidst views of mud-brick houses....
Date: February 7, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
DAMAN DISTRICT, Kandahar Province – It is midday in Ghra village and farmers are leaving their farm for their homes. Eleventh grader Jamil Ahmad, 19, has just returned home from school on his motorcycle....
Date: June 22, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The rugged terrain of Nepal poses formidable natural obstacles to road construction. Even where roads are built, they are barely operable during the rainy season. Though connectivity has improved significantly...
Date: February 17, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Project to help boost regional cooperation in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal where pastoral activities are the main source of income WASHINGTON, May 26, 2015. The World...
Date: May 26, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Dejan Tmusic is 40 years old and lives in Cetinje, a town of about 13,000 people in southern Montenegro. Dejan also has physical disabilities.Along with about 2,200 other people with disabilities living...
Date: November 19, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Honorable Congressman Alfredo Benitez, Honorable Mayors Mr. Del de Guzman, Mr. Jed Mabilog Ms. Cecilia Alba, Secretary General, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Ms. Ana...
Date: August 27, 2014
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2014—Today the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved two loans totaling US$250 million to the People’s Republic of China to help provide safer, more accessible and more...
Date: May 15, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2014 - Today the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a loan of US$150 million to the People’s Republic of China to improve rural roads network and increase the accessibility...
Date: March 6, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Neluwa Pradeshiya Saba (PS), Galle - Nirupa, a 13-year old school girl from Neluwa recalls the difficulties she and her friends faced walking to school for miles. She also observes how people’s lives changed...
Date: January 27, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
GARDI KAS VILLAGE, Nangarhar Province - Before a road was pounded into the stark landscape of this rubble-strewn valley in eastern Afghanistan, even the donkeys stumbled trying to reach city markets. Farmer...
Date: January 7, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
URROW VILLAGE, Panjshir Province - The new suspension bridge at Urrow village replaces one that told sad tales. In this remote Afghan valley in Panjshir province, villagers still tell grim stories about...
Date: January 7, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Manila, the Philippines, October 29, 2013—A new World Bank and IFC report finds that Singapore continues to provide the world’s most business-friendly regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs, followed...
Date: October 29, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Rain pours in Raúl A. Oviedo, a rural community 250 km from Asunción. Luis Espínola, a mandioca farmer, gathers his entire production and stores it in a small and improvised gallery under a thatch roof....
Date: August 6, 2012
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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