1. Understanding Poverty

Featured

WORLD BANK LIVE
DEBT: CHALLENGES AHEAD

Watch live the event on October 13, 2018 | 00:30 ET, October 13, 2018 | 4:30 GMT

Image
EVENT
Rising Tide of Debt

The 9 DMF Stakeholders’ Forum Rising Tide of Debt: Risk, Resilience, Responsibility will be held in Brussels, Belgium on May 28-29

Image

Debt At-A-Glance

Good debt management is essential to economic development. It has become ever more important as developing countries – particularly in Africa – find it easier to issue debt and are building it up at a fast pace. It is important to target long-term gains like addressing infrastructure gaps than to engage in short-sighted spending.

Overview

Data

Debt Data

More Debt Data

Partnerships

Image

Debt Management Facility (DMF)

Launched in November 2008, the Debt Management Facility (DMF) for Low-Income Countries (LICs) is a multi-donor trust fund that supports the scaling up and accelerated implementation of the World Bank Group's debt management work program in low-income countries.

Read More

FOCUS AREAS

hero-focus

Debt Relief

hero-focus

Debt Sustainability

hero-focus

Debt Management

Documents and Publications

View All Research Arrow
Report Jul 27,2018

Strengthening public debt transparency : the role of the IMF and the World Bank - G20 note

Report Jul 27,2018

Improving public debt recording, monitoring, and reporting capacity in low and lower middle-income countries : proposed reforms - G20 note

Report Jul 27,2018

Strengthening public debt transparency: Highlights and work agenda

Report Jul 25,2017

The Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS): An Assessment of Recent Capacity Building

Api

Experts

Image

Doerte Doemeland

Practice Manager, Global Macro and Debt Analytics

Lars Jessen

Lars Jessen

Lead Debt Specialist

News & Events

Api
Api

Work With Us In Debt

Additional Resources

Related Sites

Contact

Washington, DC
Yanina Budkin
ybudkin@worldbank.org