KABUL, May 17, 2017 – Entrepreneurs in Afghanistan can obtain a permit for setting up a business with relative ease, but they face considerable hurdles in other areas which are important for a firm to...
Date: May 17, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
ANKARA, January 30, 2017 – The World Bank, together with the Ministry of National Education of Turkey, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, the European Union, and KfW, has launched the "School...
Date: January 30, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Yasemin Kabalci is a second year business finance student at Istanbul University. She says she’s confident she’ll get a good job one day, but that buying a home will be a lot more difficult. “At present...
Date: October 11, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Honorable Prime Minister, Minister Gjermeni, Minister Harito, Distinguished Delegates from the Region and Development Partners, I would like to thank you for the invitation to join this important international...
Date: May 6, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
The Let’s Work Partnership recently met with government officials, donors, the private sector, and other key stakeholders in Zambia to share the preliminary findings of the Zambia Jobs Diagnostic and to...
Date: February 10, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
PANJAB DISTRICT, Bamyan Province – The sun is setting and Ali Juma, 37, who is exhausted and out of breath, has brought his herd of sheep back to the village from the pasture. He is taking them over the...
Date: February 2, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ADDIS ABABA, November 23, 2015 – Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made remarkable progress in its economic growth exceeding other low income and Sub-Saharan African countries, with real gross domestic...
Date: November 23, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Even before entering FENAD, the small brick-making factory, the noise is deafening. In the middle of the yard, Chevelin Nicolas, the manager, oversees operations and sometimes lends a hand sorting...
Date: February 18, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
It took less than a kilometer of paved road to transform a neighborhood and give it a new momentum: at the southern end of the new Nord-Alexis road (formerly called Ravine Pintade, orguinea fowl in English)...
Date: January 6, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Koha Ditore: Since 2008, the Government of Kosovo had road construction as a priority, including here the three next years that will swallow 33% of capital investments. Has this concentration only on roads...
Date: July 21, 2014
Type: Opinion
Language: English
MANILA, March 17, 2014 – The Philippines expects to maintain strong growth rates in the next three years despite the difficult global environment and the devastation unleashed by Typhoon Yolanda. Addressing...
Date: March 18, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
يتعذر على الفلسطينيين الوصول إلى أكثر من نصف أراضي الضفة الغربية، ومعظمها أراض زراعية غنية بالموارد. وتقدر أول دراسة شاملة للتأثير المحتمل لهذه "الأرض المحتجزة"، والتي صدرت عن البنك الدولي اليوم، الخسائر...
Date: December 3, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
More than half the land in the West Bank, much of it agricultural and resource rich, is inaccessible to Palestinians. The World Bank comprehensive study of the potential impact of this ‘withheld land,’...
Date: December 3, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
More powerful than Hurricane Katrina that hit the United States in 2005, Typhoon Yolanda is one of the costliest and deadliest storms in the Philippines to hit the country in recent years, displacing over...
Date: November 27, 2013
Type: Opinion
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
What do Kampala and Rio de Janeiro have in common? At first sight, the capital of landlocked Uganda and the megacity on the Brazilian coast may appear very different, but they share more than meets the...
Date: September 26, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MANILA, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 – The Philippines today has a great window of opportunity to deepen reforms that will put the country on an irreversible path towards inclusive growth – one that generates more...
Date: September 12, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
"The External Panel of internationally-recognized anti-corruption experts will issue a report assessing the adequacy of the Anti-Corruption Commission's investigation once they have had an opportunity...
Date: December 17, 2012
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In the construction industry, cost and time overruns are pervasive, both in routine maintenance and new or "greenfield" construction. The rising expense can be crippling for governments, particularly in...
Date: November 8, 2012
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Current growth patterns are not just unsustainable; they are also deeply inefficient. As a result, they stand in the way of sustainable development and its objectives of social, environmental and economic...
Date: May 9, 2012
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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