Access to financing is a major hurdle to sustainable urban development. The World Bank's City Creditworthiness Initiative helps cities improve their financial performance and secure the private ...

On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022, we at the World Bank Group will celebrate women’s achievements and contributions with a series of events and engagements – we look forward to your ...

The World Bank Group provides innovative solutions for financing, enabling and delivering sustainable infrastructure. We build stronger investment environments; design projects that are bankable, ...

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 ...

About 1.2 billion people are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. The new World Bank flagship report ...

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, ...

The Change-Makers: Empowering Youth for Inclusive Societies report offers a fresh look at how to meaningfully empower young people worldwide. Based on extensive global evidence and World Bank ...

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

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 ...

This checklist summarizes the steps to request or renew a dependent Employment Authorization Card (EAC). The EAC is required for all paid or unpaid jobs and unpaid educational internships in the U.S., ...

Names have been changed to protect privacy. A steep incline leads up to Malisuoa’s shepherd’s mud hut homestead in rural Mphokojoane community in the mountainous district of Mokhotlong, Lesotho. In ...