The World Bank has played a crucial role in supporting India's electricity sector by financing three projects that illuminate vast regions of the country, ensuring that the power sector remains a ...

Digitalization is a transformative force that can drive productivity-led growth and enhance the efficiency of critical services such as healthcare, education, financial inclusion, agriculture, social ...

Since 2021, three World Bank-supported projects in Ethiopia have helped expand digital access significantly, benefiting more than seven million Ethiopians to date and facilitating the transition to a ...

Between 2017 and 2024, the Malawi Digital Foundations Project made strategic public investments to improve access to high-speed, affordable internet which brought benefits for over 8.5 million ...

Well-designed digital solutions have the potential to alleviate the impacts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) and address FCV-related risks and drivers that undermine economic and social ...

Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is set to potentially transform the labor market, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Studies about its possible impacts have generally focused on ...

Kenya faces a growing youth employment challenge, with nearly 80 percent of its population under 35 working in informal, low-quality jobs that offer little security or opportunity for advancement.

The Côte d’Ivoire e-Agriculture Project benefited over 400,000 individuals between 2018 and 2023 working in selected agricultural value chains by improving market access and information through ...

The World Bank supported 64 countries in building cyber resilience between 2014 and 2024. Between 2015 and 2018, the World Bank helped establish Bhutan’s national Computer Security Incident Response ...

In fiscal year 2024, climate finance amounted to 62 percent of total lending in the agriculture and food sector, in the World Bank. World Bank food- and agriculture-oriented projects approved between ...

COVID-19 Response: From March 2020 to February 2022, the World Bank allocated more than $1.4 billion to enhance pandemic preparedness, directly benefiting millions of people across 22 countries in ...

In 2017, Uzbekistan launched a major reform agenda for societal and economic transformation, breaking from its past as a largely state-led and isolated economy. A series of World Bank Development ...