HIGHLIGHTS The new report finds that ending child marriage:Would have a large positive effect on the educational attainment of girls and their children and increase women’s expected earnings and household...
Date: June 27, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
According to the Economic Impacts of Child Marriage report published by the World Bank and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), child marriage will cost developing countries trillions...
Date: June 27, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2017— The World Bank Board of Directors today approved $100 million in financing to support Sri Lanka’s higher education sector. This new initiative will help increase enrollment in...
Date: May 12, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The institution pledges an estimated US$410 million per year from Fiscal Year 18 onwards WASHINGTON – April 27, 2017 - The World Bank Group (WBG) Board endorsed today a new Country Partnership Framework...
Date: April 27, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Dame Shirley Pearce, Director David Webb, distinguished faculty, students, and guests. Thank you for hosting me this evening. It’s a great honor to be here with you, and with representatives from our close...
Date: April 11, 2017
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
DAR ES SALAAM, March 16, 2017 —The World Bank Group President, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, will visit Tanzania from March 19-21, 2017. During his visit, Dr. Kim will meet with President John Pombe Magufuli, to discuss...
Date: March 16, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
A very Good Afternoon to you all. I want to say a very warm good afternoon to the beneficiaries in the villages who are joining us by video link. I also want to thank the three beneficiaries who spoke...
Date: March 1, 2017
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Mumbai, February 28, 2017: Kristalina Georgieva, the World Bank’s Chief Executive Officer, arrived today on a two day visit to India - the World Bank’s largest client - as the country takes on a more complex...
Date: February 28, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The Internship Program is open to students who are nationals of the Bank's member countries and attracts a large number of highly qualified candidates. The goal of this Internship Program is...
Date: February 2, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
OUAGADOUGOU, December 14, 2016 – Totaling more than CFAF 18,000 billion, the financing pledges of Burkina Faso’s development partners greatly exceeded the country’s expectations of CFAF 5,000 billion...
Date: December 14, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BAMAKO, December 9, 2016 ─ Despite the dominant role that crop and livestock farming plays in Mali’s economy, the country has some of the highest rates of acute malnutrition and rural poverty in Africa....
Date: December 9, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Blog #1 - Striving, struggling and thriving in Nepal Lahjung Bhotia is from Hatiya, Sankhuwasabha, a remote mountainous district in Eastern Nepal. She and her husband rent land and grow black cardamom...
Date: December 5, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
VIENTIANE, November 14, 2016 — On her visit to Lao PDR, World Bank Regional Vice President for East Asia and Pacific Victoria Kwakwa reaffirmed the World Bank’s strong support for programs and policies...
Date: November 14, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, October 17, 2016 – In order to win the fight against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, children need to have better access to basic opportunities, according to new World Bank data...
Date: October 13, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
When her husband, a sharecropper, died about 15 years ago, Halima Begum was left to raise her three daughters in a crumbling, leaky house on a small plot of land. Living in Dakhhin Rakudia village in Barisal...
Date: October 8, 2016
Type: Feature Story
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
In the early 1990s, fear of crime and violence was a defining feature of life in Medellin, Colombia’s second-largest city. In 1991, the homicide rate peaked at a staggering 381 per 100,000 inhabitants,...
Date: September 6, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Your Excellency the Honorable Prime Minister and Ministers, Hon. Minister Abdul Kadir and Rama Rao, distinguished guests, colleagues from the Development Community and Friends, It is a great pleasure to...
Date: August 15, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
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
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