World Bank Report Outlines Key Success Factors, Challenges, and Lessons Learned in Strengthening Public Sector Management Malaysia’s experience in driving public sector performance through a delivery...
Date: May 9, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Tereza Sahradyan is a fifth-year student at Yerevan State Medical University who wants to major in surgery. She takes every opportunity to gain hands-on experience before becoming a professional practicing...
Date: April 18, 2017
Type: Feature Story
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
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
Bangladesh’s leadership has long understood that its future prosperity is closely tied to educational progress. The government’s dedication to that idea is already bearing impressive fruit, as the percentage...
Date: October 9, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, DC, July 8, 2016 – The World Bank (WB) Board of Executive Directors approved a US$45 million additional loan today to continue promoting innovation and technological improvement, under the...
Date: July 8, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2015 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) loan of US$ 40 million to Georgia for the Georgia...
Date: March 18, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The World Bank has been supporting Georgia’s government and private sector to advance innovation-led growth of key economic sectors since 2013. These policy advice, knowledge transfer, and capacity building...
Date: March 15, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Gov’t-World Bank Group joint report recommends reforms to foster private sector competitiveness, promote social inclusion and build modern institutions. HANOI, February 23, 2016—A new report recommending...
Date: February 23, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KARACHI, February 10, 2016—More than 400 students today packed the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) auditorium in Karachi. They were eager to interact with Jim Yong Kim, President of the...
Date: February 10, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Kazakhstan’s Technology Commercialization Project fast approaches its completion in December 2015, and in a relatively short time, has demonstrated outstanding results: its success rate has reached 30%,...
Date: December 15, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Poland has just had the best 25 years in its history. During that time, it became the European champion in economic growth and a world champion among economies at the similar level of development. However,...
Date: November 26, 2015
Type: Opinion
Language: English
With the climate negotiations in Paris only a few months away, it is obvious that the private sector’s ingenuity and innovation will be critical to helping the world move on a low-carbon and...
Date: October 10, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, July 2, 2015 — The World Bank issued today the Mauritius Systematic Country Diagnostic aimed at analyzing the country’s most critical constraints and opportunities in accelerating progress...
Date: July 2, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
ASTANA, June 9, 2015 — The Government of Kazakhstan signed a $88 million loan agreement today with the World Bank to foster productive innovation in Kazakhstan. The five-year project will...
Date: June 9, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Poland has just had the best 25 years in its history. During that time Poland has become Europe’s champion in economic growth, leaving behind all other transition countries and all of Western Europe, World...
Date: May 14, 2015
Type: Opinion
Language: English
The world is heating up as human activity increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Decarbonizing Development report looks at three steps policymakers can take to get to net zero...
Date: May 11, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
All countries have their own industrial policies. So does Poland. We have quite many excellent development programmes. Since 1989 around 300 strategies have been developed. However, they have not been...
Date: April 21, 2015
Type: Opinion
Language: English
Poland must create a climate of entrepreneurial inquiry, where innovative ideas are able to be conceived, nurtured, and ultimately delivered in the form of a viable business, World Bank experts write....
Date: April 1, 2015
Type: Opinion
Language: English
ACCRA, March 14 & 15, 2015 – The World Bank’s Global Information and Communication Technologies Practice in partnership with the iSpace Foundation and National Instruments (NI), has organized a two-day...
Date: March 15, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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