Valerie Hickey is the Director for Environment at the World Bank Group. In this role, she leads a global team that leverages data, knowledge, and partnerships to ensure that the WBG’s public and ...

Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice ...

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2025—Bangladesh and the World Bank signed two financing agreements totaling $850 million today to help the country develop the Bay Terminal deep sea port and modernize the ...

About The World Bank The World Bank Group has a bold vision: to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. In more than 100 countries, the World Bank Group provides financing, advice, and ...

Christoph Lakner is the Program Manager for Global Poverty and Inequality Data in the Development Data Group (Data Analytics team) at the World Bank.

In 2005, India introduced a national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which offered up to 100 days of unskilled manual labor per year on ...

As differences in price levels across the world evolve, the global poverty line has to be periodically updated to reflect these changes. Since 2015, the last update, we have used $1.90 as the global ...

About The World Bank The World Bank Group has a bold vision: to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. In more than 100 countries, the World Bank Group provides financing, advice, and ...

The package is designed to support reforms that continue to attract private investment and further boost the measures being implemented by the national government to promote job creation.

According to the World Bank's latest Economic Monitor for Libya, the economy contracted by 0.6 percent, primarily driven by a 6 percent decline in oil GDP, influenced by political and institutional ...

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