Tackling key institutional bottlenecks WASHINGTON, June 30, 2017— The World Bank approved today a Euro 54.9 million ($60 million equivalent) credit to support Senegal’s efforts in strengthening the governance...
Date: June 30, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
More than 150 participants came together for a workshop in Urumqi in April to discuss urban intelligent transport systems (ITS) and jobs-housing balance. Participants came from transport research institutes...
Date: June 16, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
World Bank Approves $72.4 Million WASHINGTON, June 5, 2017— Today, the World Bank provided a $72.4 million International Development Association* credit to help Malawi build the digital foundations needed...
Date: June 5, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
$36m grants approved to bring broadband to Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia WASHINGTON D.C., May 31, 2017 –The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$36 million in...
Date: June 1, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
NIAMEY, May 30, 2017 - “I got the idea to create my ‘Health Coach’ application from discussions with other women. The app helps women monitor their pregnancy and the subsequent development of their children...
Date: May 30, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KABUL CITY – Ten young men are engrossed on their screens, the blue light from their screens lends an eerie haze to the room. They are hard at work at MSoft Technologies, a newly established Afghan Information...
Date: May 30, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BRAZZAVILLE, May 3, 2017 – “While the World Bank is certainly best known as a donor institution, it is also a knowledge-sharing institution, and I am inclined to believe that we should be known more as...
Date: May 3, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In a little room on the Hatton tea plantation in Sri Lanka, fifty or so young people, most of them under 25, had a smartphone and shared a common purpose. They wanted to use WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook and...
Date: May 1, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2017 — The World Bank Group launched XL Africa, a five-month business acceleration program designed to support the 20 most promising digital start-ups from Sub-Saharan Africa....
Date: April 25, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
DHAKA, April 18, 2017 – The government of Bangladesh today signed two additional financing agreements totaling $74 million with the World Bank to improve the country’s e-government services across its...
Date: April 18, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Washington, DC, April 18, 2017 — The World Bank Group today welcomed the GSMA, the global body representing nearly 800 mobile operators and 300 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, to its coalition...
Date: April 18, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
DAR ES SALAAM, April 11, 2017–In less than eight years, there has been extraordinary progress in bringing the majority of Tanzanians into the mobile money revolution, mostly by adopting an efficient, low-cost...
Date: April 11, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2017—The World Bank has launched “Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa,” a free user-friendly online Africa knowledge feature of the Open Knowledge Repository which contains the World...
Date: March 30, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2017 – The World Bank Group today approved additional financing of $15 million from the International Development Association (IDA). “This financing will help support the Government’s...
Date: March 30, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In my remarks, I would like to dwell on a few issues that we believe are pertinent to achieving smart growth, education, strengthening research and innovation, and enhancing Serbia’s capacity to evolve...
Date: March 8, 2017
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
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
SAVAI’I, SAMOA, February 24, 2017 – The Government of Samoa, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, and the Government of Australia today launched the Savai’i component of the new $57.4 million...
Date: February 24, 2017
Type: Press Release
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
PRISHTINA, February 13 2017− The World Bank and the Ministry of Economic Development of Kosovo have concluded the Women in Online Work (WoW) pilot project, which helped train over 150 young, unemployed...
Date: February 13, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Ato Brown, World Bank Country Manager for Kazakhstan, met recently with the team at the Alliance of Technology Commercialization Professionals (ATCP), which promotes the development of technology commercialization...
Date: January 19, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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