The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity.

The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Tsutomu Yamamoto as Managing Director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), home of the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform.

Investing in health drives job creation and economic growth, highlighting its pivotal role in building resilient societies and fostering prosperity.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) is part of the GovTech Initiative to measure maturity in four focus areas: supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen ...

Social protection, labor & employment systems help poor and vulnerable people cope with crises and shocks, find jobs, invest in the health and education of their children, and protect the aging ...

Over the past decade, the African Centers of Excellence (ACE) have trained thousands of students in key fields such as health, agriculture, digital technology, energy, and the environment. But behind ...

In 2024, Belize, a small Caribbean country grappling with increasing climate risks that strain its economy, gained access to concessional financing from the World Bank’s International Development ...

For years, Jamaica has been highly exposed to natural disasters, from hurricanes and floods to earthquakes and landslides.

Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions The 2025 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2024. It identifies key policy trends in ...

World Development Report 2022: FINANCE for an Equitable RecoveryToday’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And ...

Jobs and Growth Jobs are the most reliable pathway out of poverty. Sustained and inclusive economic growth, driven by a productive private sector, creates more and better jobs and leads to increases ...