The World Bank is helping the Indian government to scale up a women's empowerment initiative in one of the poorest regions of India to bring transformational change to the lives of rural women, their families,...
Date: June 20, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
New World Bank report analyzes Malaysia’s journey on financial inclusion during the past two decades Malaysia has achieved one of the highest levels of financial inclusion among Southeast Asia countries,...
Date: May 22, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, MAY 17, 2017 – The World Bank will support the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh in its efforts to spend money more efficiently by improving the financial planning, budgeting and accounting...
Date: May 17, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
NEW DELHI, March 22, 2017: The Government of India, the Government of West Bengal and the World Bank today signed a US$ 210 million loan agreement to strengthen Gram Panchayats (GPs) – the lowest...
Date: March 22, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KABUL CITY – The room is a little dark and every few seconds Mozhgan pulls out contracts to scan and save them on her computer’s hard drive. She saves the scanned documents using a special software and...
Date: March 12, 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
Zagreb, 9 December, 2016 – Financial sector development must go beyond improving access to bank credit. Financial systems should develop in a balanced way through both bank and nonbank subsectors, including...
Date: December 9, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, December 9, 2016—The World Bank Board of Directors approved a loan yesterday to strengthen land management institutions and implement regional policies to improve finances and prioritize investments...
Date: December 9, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Warsaw, 6 December, 2016 – Financial sector development must go beyond improving access to bank credit. Financial systems should develop in a balanced way through both bank and non-bank subsectors, including...
Date: December 6, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Warsaw, 6 December, 2016 – Financial sector development must go beyond improving access to bank credit. Financial systems should develop in a balanced way through both bank and nonbank subsectors, including...
Date: December 6, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
President Kim announces financing to help increase commitments up to $1 billion DHAKA, October 17, 2016—World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today said he hopes financial support to Bangladesh to end...
Date: October 17, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The World Bank presented an overview and analysis of Afghanistan’s economy at the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan on October 5, 2016. 70 countries and 20 international organizations and agencies were...
Date: October 5, 2016
Type: Feature Story
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
The World Bank Group Young Malaysian Researcher Prize 2016 was awarded to Tng Boon Hwa, Senior Economist at Bank Negara Malaysia, for best research paper on development policy. In this interview, he talks...
Date: May 27, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
In the remote district of Jajarkot in Nepal, a disabled man named Bhim Bahadur Singh recently started receiving a monthly disability allowance. He had no knowledge that he was even entitled to this payment...
Date: April 13, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
YAKA BAGH VILLAGE, Balkh Province – Forty-year old Zahra is arranging plastic flowers and beads in a newly built room in her house. She carefully separates the flowers and threads them with the beads,...
Date: March 22, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The Central Internal Audit and Financial Control Harmonization Unit of the Croatian Ministry of Finance recently hosted a study tour for a 14-member delegation from Brazil. Members of the Brazilian delegation...
Date: March 7, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
To improve financial management of funds for social and economic development, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Finance has been working closely with the World Bank to strengthen and modernize the country’s Treasury...
Date: February 29, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
LILONGWE, February 4, 2016 – Chisomo Jumbe, a small businessman in Salima District in central Malawi, wrote the World Bank in October last year seeking a loan of $3,000 to pay for a transformer to...
Date: February 4, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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