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, ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

This edition of the Lao Economic Monitor includes a section on health tax reforms, arguing for higher excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol. While the Lao economy has improved slightly in 2024, ...

We Want to Hear Your Views! The World Bank Group is preparing the new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Bhutan for the period FY 2025-2029. The Framework will guide the World Bank Group's ...

The WICER quick assessment tool helps assess if a project, system, or city is WICER and presents solutions, guidelines, and resources to become circular and resilience while achieving economic and ...

Washington, D.C. January 31, 2025: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a new project to help Belize advance the blue economy – an economy based on the sustainable use of ocean and ...

Bangkok, January 21, 2010—The global economic recovery that is now underway will slow later this year as the impact of fiscal stimulus wanes. Financial markets remain troubled and private sector ...