The Tamil Nadu Rural Transformation Project is helping to address the financial challenges faced by aspirational women ...

Here’s an update as we wrap up a two-week mission in Africa, concluding key discussions at Mining Indaba and reflecting on progress in the World Bank’s mining program, alongside IFC and MIGA. Three ...

Names have been changed to protect privacy. A steep incline leads up to Malisuoa’s shepherd’s mud hut homestead in rural Mphokojoane community in the mountainous district of Mokhotlong, Lesotho. In ...

Access to financing is a major hurdle to sustainable urban development. The World Bank's City Creditworthiness Initiative helps cities improve their financial performance and secure the private ...

Our mission at the World Bank is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. Through the Community Connections program, we live these goals in our own communities via ...

Ensuring that all girls and young women receive a quality education is their human right, a global development priority, and a strategic priority for the World Bank. Achieving gender equality is ...

About 1.2 billion people are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. The new World Bank flagship report ...

This checklist summarizes the steps to request or renew a dependent Employment Authorization Card (EAC). The EAC is required for all paid or unpaid jobs and unpaid educational internships in the U.S., ...

India is in a period of unprecedented opportunity, challenge and ambition in its development. The country’s extreme poverty rate has fallen from 46 percent to 21 percent in the two decades up to 2011, ...

The World Bank Group provides innovative solutions for financing, enabling and delivering sustainable infrastructure. We build stronger investment environments; design projects that are bankable, ...

The Change-Makers: Empowering Youth for Inclusive Societies report offers a fresh look at how to meaningfully empower young people worldwide. Based on extensive global evidence and World Bank ...

～世界銀行URLフォーラムで加古川市・神戸市・民間セクター・JICAの実践を紹介～ 日本の都市は、世界で最もリバブルな（住みやすい）都市として常に上位に位置付けられています。その ...