A new report says the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s most challenging regions, also presents a unique opportunity for economic
A water supply and sanitation project is providing services for more than three million Ethiopians during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Official creditors—with the Bank Group and IMF—have mobilized up to $57 billion for African countries to fight against COVID-19.
The Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project (SWEDD), aims to empower women and adolescent girls in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
The latest economic analysis for the region predicts the pandemic could cost as much as $79 billion in output losses for 2020.
Africa’s poorest countries saw little to no progress on average in improving the quality of their policy and institutional frameworks in 2018.
With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
Read the World Bank’s plan to support African countries to strengthen the quantity, efficiency and impact of investments in people.
