Growth in South Asia is expected to increase to 6.4 percent this year, exceeding earlier projections and keeping the region on track to be the fastest growing in the world. Unlocking untapped ...

Latin America and the Caribbean will grow 1.9 percent in 2024. In 2025, the region is forecast to grow 2.6 percent. These are the lowest rates among all global regions ...

COLOMBO, October 7, 2024 – The World Bank and the Government of Sri Lanka today signed the Second Resilience, Stability, and Economic Turnaround (RESET) Development Policy Operation (DPO) for $200 ...

Developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) is continuing to grow faster than the rest of the world in 2024, but slower than before the pandemic, the World Bank said in its semi-annual economic outlook for ...

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

The World Bank Group requires insurance coverage from its vendors. Insurance requirements vary in accordance with the type and complexity of the goods and/or services requested and Certificates of ...

This series of four policy notes provides a snapshot of health and nutrition in Lao PDR, with each note respectively focusing on government health spending, maternal and child expenditure, health care ...

What does the world need to do to become “Business Ready”? A healthy business environment and strong private sector are ...

Sustainable economic growth continues to offer the surest path out of poverty. The World Bank supports investments in countries that underpin long-term growth and that help to meet the needs of their ...

Benin's geographic position at the intersection of two important regional corridors - the Abidjan-Lagos corridor and the Cotonou-Niamey corridor - makes it an important commercial and tourism ...