LONDON, May 15, 2017 -- The IFRS Foundation has announced a new cooperation agreement with the World Bank to provide greater support to developing economies in their use of IFRS Standards.The agreement,...
Date: May 15, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Achievement #1 On May 15, 2002, James Wolfensohn, the World Bank Group President at that time, officially reopened the World Bank Office in Kabul after 23 years of the office being closed....
Date: May 15, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Before I moved to Serbia, I read a very interesting book about this part of the world called ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ that, more often than not, seems to come true in all its absurdity when one lives here. One...
Date: April 26, 2017
Type: Opinion
Language: English
DHAKA, March 6, 2017 – The government of Bangladesh today signed a $300 million financing agreement with the World Bank to strengthen local governments through establishing national budget transfers...
Date: March 6, 2017
Type: Press Release
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
Grade seven in the Qureshi Government Boys Secondary School in Karachi is bustling with activity. The science class is in session and the chemistry teacher is talking about atoms and molecules. The students...
Date: February 13, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ULANNBAATAR, 9 FEBRUARY, 2017 – A World Bank and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) project recently brought together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss solutions for the most pressing...
Date: February 9, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, 18 November 2016 – Increasing access to basic health, nutrition, water and sanitation services, improving management and accountability in public services and expanding infrastructure are the...
Date: November 18, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
VIENTIANE, OCTOBER 13, 2016 – A meeting led by the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) reviewed the implementation performance of projects and programs financed by the Asian Development...
Date: October 13, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
For people living in the remote Bangladeshi village of Saraswatipur, getting to the nearest health care provider 10 kilometers away in Upazila Health Complex in Mohadevpur meant an hour-long, bumpy trek...
Date: September 28, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ASTANA, May 17, 2016 – Public Procurement specialists from across Europe and Central Asia gathered in Astana today to share experiences and best-practices in public procurement reforms. They discussed...
Date: May 16, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
HARARE, March 22, 2016 – Not so long ago, many communities in Zimbabwe began their day to the rhythmic vibration of trains passing by on the railway tracks. The trains used to run like clockwork, literally...
Date: March 22, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. On a steamy October day in 2010, over 350 representatives from government, civil society, international organizations, and the private sector crowded into a meeting...
Date: December 9, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ULAANBAATAR, November 11, 2015—The World Bank and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) today launched a $3 million project to boost social accountability in Mongolia in the next four...
Date: November 11, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Real-Time Information Helps Budget Formulation and Disbursement Jakarta, November 11, 2015 -- A comprehensive centralized database of all central government financial transactions that tracks...
Date: November 11, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
World Bank’s Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Cyril Muller visits Bulgaria SOFIA, September 1, 2015 – The World Bank’s Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Cyril Muller and Bulgaria’s Deputy...
Date: September 1, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Around the world, including in the most difficult and challenging environments, our work aims to advance social and economic participation and rights – including in healthcare, education, social protection,...
Date: June 22, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
“Greetings! Sir, we purchased a property worth 11,000 Euros. We paid a tax for the purchase of 800 Euros and paid a bribe of 400 Euros for property registration”. Citizens from the Pakistan Province (state)...
Date: December 15, 2014
Type: Opinion
Language: English
As snowy weather forecasts threatened to cut power lines along the Northeast corridor, the World Bank, along with the Natural Resource Governance Institute, and DFID collectively brainstormed over Governance...
Date: December 15, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, November 18, 2014 – The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$36 million development policy credit and a US$27 million development policy grant for the republic...
Date: November 18, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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