Also Available in: دری | پښتوEconomic, social progress of last 15 years is at risk KABUL, May 8, 2017— Poverty and unemployment in Afghanistan rose in the three years following the start of international...
Date: May 8, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The World Bank released its first Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) for Afghanistan in 2016. The SCD is a country-level analytical document that provides an evidence-based diagnostic within an objective...
Date: May 9, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, April 7, 2016 – The World Bank Group (WBG) Board of Executive Directors today endorsed the new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with Colombia, which establishes the operational program until...
Date: April 7, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Judging by economic data alone, the revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring should have never happened. The numbers from the decades before had told a glowing story: the region had been making steady progress...
Date: October 21, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, October 21, 2015 – A longtime reliance on economic indicators as a barometer of progress in Middle Eastern and North African countries masked the level of frustration and dissatisfaction...
Date: October 21, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The publication in 2014 of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century brought inequality to the center of the public policy debate. Looking at lots of historical data, he finds that...
Date: May 13, 2015
Type: Opinion
Language: English
New Delhi, January 20, 2015: Jobs and migration are supporting considerable upward mobility among both the poor and the vulnerable sections of the population in India. Households from Scheduled Castes...
Date: January 20, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Jan 20, 2015: Octavio Paz, Nobel-laureate and Mexico’s ambassador to India, saw India as a land of extremes. “Incredible opulence” coexisted side by side with “equally unbelievable poverty”, he wrote fifty...
Date: January 20, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ISTANBUL, December 10, 2014—Steady growth over the past decades has brought Turkey to the threshold of becoming a high-income economy, prosperity has been broadly shared across income groups in the society,...
Date: December 10, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
ISLAMABAD, December 04, 2014— Jobs and migration are supporting substantial upward mobility across and within generations in a South Asia that is a land of extremes of side-by-side extravagant wealth and...
Date: December 4, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
How can Haiti’s growth be accelerated and how can this be done in a way that benefits the poorest? A competition among Haitian researchers living in Haiti, Africa, Canada, and the United States focused...
Date: November 11, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
PRETORIA, November 4, 2014—South Africa lifts 3.6 million people out of poverty and cuts the rate of extreme poverty by half, as a result of its use of fiscal policy. Tax and social benefits effectively...
Date: November 4, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Fifty years ago, Mexico’s ambassador to India described the country as a “land of extremes” with incredible opulence surrounded by equally unbelievable poverty. Today, South Asia boasts many billionaires,...
Date: October 10, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, October 9, 2014— Jobs and migration are supporting substantial upward mobility across and within generations in a South Asia that is a land of extremes of side-by-side extravagant wealth and...
Date: October 9, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
There are a number of reasons to be optimistic after the recent ‘Invest in Tunisia: Start-up Democracy’ conference. Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa made it clear that fixing the economy was now a top priority....
Date: September 24, 2014
Type: Opinion
Language: English
• Vietnam has achieved rapid growth with only modest increases in income inequality. In contrast, in many countries, notably China, growth has been accompanied by large increases in inequality.• ...
Date: July 8, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The green and yellow team, which will play the opening match against Croatia at the 2014 World Cup next Thursday, is the most visible part of a sport as unequal as the society it represents. Brazilian...
Date: June 7, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
East Asia in the World Economy: Challenges for the Next 20 years Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to attend this conference for the third time. The rich agenda and excellent...
Date: May 23, 2014
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
WASHINGTON - Empowering women and giving them a voice are vital in unleashing their full productive potential. Europe and Central Asia has come a long way in this regard – women in the region enjoy larger...
Date: May 20, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Creating More and Better Jobs: We Can Work It Out Motoo Konishi, Rogier van den Brink and Karl Kendrick Chua Presentation to the Third Arangkada Philippines Anniversary Forum Wednesday February 26, 2014...
Date: February 26, 2014
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
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