The Kingdom of Bhutan is considered a development success story, with decreasing poverty and improvements in human development indicators. The Bank's engagement in Bhutan is aimed at supporting the ...

Economies do better at enacting regulations to improve the national business climate than they do in providing the public ...

The Heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed on broad principles for cooperation on pandemic preparedness.

Regional integration helps countries overcome divisions that impede the flow of goods, services, capital, people and ideas. These divisions are a constraint to economic growth, especially in ...

Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, GDP growth has averaged over 9 percent a year, and more than 800 million people have lifted themselves out of poverty. There have also been ...

What does the world need to do to become “Business Ready”? A healthy business environment and strong private sector are foundations of economic growth: generating jobs, boosting investment and ...

This is a bi-annual report series on recent economic developments and economic policies in South Eastern Europe (SEE6: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia).

As a function of good governance, Financial Management (FM) forms an integral part of the development process in all Bank-financed operations and country institutional strengthening efforts, and is ...

Poverty has increased slightly amid recent shocks, despite some economic stabilization. Pakistan made significant progress towards reducing poverty between 2001 and 2018 with the expansion of off-farm ...

The Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) is an independent unit within the World Bank that investigates and pursues sanctions related to allegations of fraud and corruption in World Bank-financed projects.

The World Bank Group's Environment Strategy 2012-2022 lays out an ambitious agenda to support "green, clean, resilient" paths for developing countries, as they pursue poverty reduction and development ...

With a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of approximately US$640 billion, Argentina is one of the largest economies in Latin America. Argentina has vast natural resources in energy and agriculture. Within ...