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
ENJIL DISTRICT, Herat Province – Ghulam Nabi, 48, holds the handle of a metal bucket with his calloused hands and fills it with wheat grains. He pours the grains into the mill’s feed chute, and the coarse...
Date: December 7, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
November 19 is World Toilet Day, a day to raise awareness and inspire action to tackle the global sanitation challenge – a topic often neglected and shrouded in taboos. Today, 2.4 billion people are...
Date: November 17, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ABIDJAN, July 14, 2016—Côte d'Ivoire has been enjoying an economic upturn since the return of political stability in 2012, with an average growth rate of 9% per year. The country is viewed as a “champion”...
Date: July 14, 2016
Type: Press Release
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
Only 5% of formal businesses in Djibouti receive bank financing, according to estimates. Banks in Djibouti are fairly liquid, but they are often unwilling to lend to micro, small and medium size enterprises...
Date: March 22, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
“The sewing machine is my main source of income,” said Nai’ma Bassuni, a widow with four children. Bassuni received a micro- loan through the Social Fund for Development (SFD) to upgrade her small sewing...
Date: December 31, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, December 22, 2015 - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a Micro Small and Medium Enterprise and Large Enterprise Supply Chain Finance Project for Turkey in the amount...
Date: December 22, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Kolkata, August 23 2015: Like many success stories, Bandhan started small. Now, fourteen years after it was first established in 2001, this Kolkata based microfinance institution (MFI), the largest in...
Date: August 23, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
DHAKA, May 05, 2015 – The Government of Bangladesh today signed a $200 million financing agreement with the World Bank for the Nuton Jibon Livelihood Improvement Project to improve livelihoods for about...
Date: May 5, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KABUL CITY, Afghanistan – Sleeping next to a warm heater in a small room, the baby breathes comfortably. Only three months old, she is probably the luckiest member among the family of seven members living...
Date: March 20, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In the early 2000s the Government of Cambodia set an ambitious goal to achieve universal sanitation coverage by 2025. In recent years efforts have been ramped up to achieve this goal, with a National Strategic...
Date: February 2, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Magandang hapon po. Thank you to our partners from government and the private sector, and our friends from the media, for joining today’s discussion of the Philippine performance in the Doing Business...
Date: October 29, 2014
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
ABUJA, September 25, 2014— The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$500 million International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) credit to increase access to finance...
Date: September 25, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved funds to help the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) modernize its banking infrastructure, and increase the availability...
Date: March 18, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
A Family BusinessHossam Tammam is 40 years-old and brimming with enthusiasm. He is the owner of a small-business that bears his family’s name. It has grown significantly of late, an achievement that...
Date: January 14, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
$52 Billion for IDA, the World Bank’s Fund for the Poorest MOSCOW, December 17, 2013 – Despite tough economic times, a global coalition of developed and developing countries today pledged to accelerate...
Date: December 17, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, December 5, 2013 - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$14 million International Development Association (IDA)* credit to boost the Government of Togo’s efforts...
Date: December 5, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Experts Call for “Responsible” Measures to Expand Financial Inclusion WASHINGTON, November 11, 2013 – As mobile banking and other technological innovations fuel the expansion of financial services...
Date: November 11, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Manila, the Philippines, October 29, 2013—A new World Bank and IFC report finds that Singapore continues to provide the world’s most business-friendly regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs, followed...
Date: October 29, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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