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Join Us for the IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings 2022

The IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings begin on Monday, October 10. Learn more about our live events and find out how you can participate online or in person.

Live Events David Malpass: The Crisis Facing Development

Poverty and Prosperity Report 2022

COVID-19 Dealt a Historic Blow to Poverty Reduction

The 2022 Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report provides the first comprehensive analysis of the pandemic’s toll on poverty in developing countries and of the role of fiscal policy in protecting vulnerable groups. It also finds that global progress in poverty reduction has ground to a halt and calls for an urgent course correction by policymakers.

Food Security

Latest Food Security Update

Our newest update from Oct. 3 shows that domestic food price inflation remains high around the world. Furthermore, in September, average wheat prices were 20% higher, maize was 29% higher, and rice was 8% higher than one year prior.

Economic Updates

NEW: World Bank Regional Economic Updates

Find out more about the macro-economic trends in each region in our latest economic updates for Africa, East Asia and the Pacific (EAP), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and South Asia (SAR).

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The World Bank has two goals: end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way.

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Food Security

Food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

Food Security Update
Agriculture and Food
Food Security
Climate Change

Climate change, poverty, and inequality are the defining issues of our age. The World Bank Group is the biggest multilateral funder of climate investments in developing countries.

World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan 2021–2025
Climate Action Stories
Climate Change
Human Capital Project (HCP)

The human Capital Project is a global effort to accelerate more and better investments in people for greater equity and economic growth.

About the HCP
REPORT - Children: The hidden pandemic
Human Capital Project (HCP)
International Development Association (IDA)

IDA is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries.

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IDA 20 Highlights
International Development Association (IDA)

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Data

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Given the short-term potency of methane, cost-effective interventions to reduce methane emissions should be an immediate priority for the sectors with the largest emissions. The agriculture, energy, sanitation and waste sectors are collectively responsible for 90-95% of global anthropogenic sources of methane.

The World Bank Group (WBG) has a long record of engagement on methane reduction across the key areas of agriculture, energy, and sanitation and waste. The table below provides examples of extensive WBG work in this area, including various types of project activities that will reduce methane emissions.

Methane Factsheet

Education is a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. Developing countries have made tremendous progress in getting children into the classroom and the majority of children worldwide are now in primary school. Nevertheless, some 260 million children are still out of primary and secondary school. Learn More.

By 2030, an additional 68.8 million teachers will need to be recruited just for primary and secondary: 20 million are required to expand access to primary and secondary school and 49 million are needed to replace those who leave the workforce. In addition, the childcare workforce needs to expand by 32 million globally to address the childcare gap. Read More.