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
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
GABORONE, May 5, 2017—The World Bank’s Forever Young report highlights the fertility decline experienced by Botswana since the 1980s has put the country at the edge of a window of demographic...
Date: May 5, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
I noticed them first on the Saturday after I had moved to my apartment in Kyiv: elderly men and women going through garbage bins on the street in search of bottles and other things salvageable and valuable....
Date: April 20, 2017
Type: Opinion
Language: English
Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq September 21, 2016 - The Kurdistan Regional Government has approved a new strategic framework to strengthen the Region’s social protection programs “The new Framework strengthens...
Date: September 21, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, In June 2015, the International Labor Organization and the World Bank Group launched an initiative on universal social protection to support social protection for all....
Date: September 21, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Package expands protections for people, environment in Bank-financed projectsWASHINGTON, August 4, 2016 -- The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a new Environmental and Social Framework...
Date: August 4, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Continuing Economic Reforms, Addressing Aging Population Are Critical Priorities BANGKOK, June 28, 2016—Thailand’s economy is expected to grow by 2.5 percent in 2016, after growing 2.8 percent last year....
Date: June 28, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Eugenio Zeca Soares, works as a security guard in Maputo, Mozambique. He left his home province of Zambezia three years ago and moved to Maputo looking for better living conditions. “Finding a job is very...
Date: June 17, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In 2011, Tunisia set itself on a new trajectory, peacefully ousting a 30-year dictatorship. In the five years that have followed, Tunisians have passed a new constitution and held democratic elections....
Date: May 20, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The good news is that in a little over a decade, Brazilian workers became more skilled and better paid, according to the new World Bank report entitled Sustaining Employment and Wage Gains...
Date: October 20, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Region’s growth to remain stagnant in 2015, expected to rise in 2016Countries that grew less during the commodity boom doing better now than commodity exportersThe slowdown’s adverse effect on jobs, wages,...
Date: October 6, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
On June 30, 2015, World Bank Group (WBG) President Jim Yong Kim and International Labor Organization’s Director-General Guy Ryder co-launched a joint plan of action on Universal Social...
Date: July 27, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
HANOI, July 20, 2015 – Vietnam’s economic growth has continued to strengthen with gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to expand 6.28 percent during the first half of 2015, according to the World...
Date: July 20, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
More than 1.9 billion people in 136 low and middle-income countries benefit from social safety net programs, yet 55 percent of the world’s poor or 773 million poor people with acute needs still lack coverage....
Date: July 7, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In Greek mythology, the “Golden Age” referred to an idyllic period of peace and stability when people lived long, healthy, active, and prosperous lives. Prometheus, the Titan god of forethought, is said...
Date: June 16, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In 2014, the Egyptian government adjusted the way it keeps staple foods—like bread—affordable. Instead of subsidizing flour for bakeries that make baladi (rustic) bread, with the introduction of a smart...
Date: June 9, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KIGALI, August 28, 2014— In the Rwanda Economic Update (REU) launched today, the World Bank forecasts an economic growth rate of 5.7% in 2014 and 6.6% in 2015. Rwanda’s growth slowed to 4.7% in 2013, the...
Date: August 28, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
MANILA, March 17, 2014 – The Philippines expects to maintain strong growth rates in the next three years despite the difficult global environment and the devastation unleashed by Typhoon Yolanda. Addressing...
Date: March 18, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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