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

Somik Lall is Senior Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Lall has recently directed the World Bank's 2024 World Development Report on the “Middle Income Trap” that examines how ...

Ethiopia has made significant progress in energy access in recent years; however, despite a 94% electrification rate in urban ...

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...

Even as Africa’s cities are crowded with inhabitants — but not dense with capital — they are physically fragmented and dispersed. They develop as collections of small, scattered neighborhoods. Without ...

Global economic activity continued to lose momentum in August as recovery leveled off and the new Delta variant outbreak applied the brakes on services, while commodity prices have been volatile and ...

Achieving many of the new Sustainable Development Goals depends upon the ability to provide a climate-smart food system. A new World Bank report advocates implementing agriculture practices that ...

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 ...

Financial sector is the set of institutions, instruments, markets, as well as the legal and regulatory framework that permit transactions to be made by extending credit. Fundamentally, financial ...

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 ...

Ineffective policies can persist, while potentially effective policies are often not adopted. The World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law explores why some policies fail to achieve ...