Yet one in four developing economies remains poorer than it was in 2019WASHINGTON, January 13, 2026—The global economy is proving more resilient than anticipated despite persistent trade tensions and policy uncertainty, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospect...
World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development AI tools presetation and demo. Photo: World Bank Development research turns into action when people, technology, and collaboration work together.Development economics knowledge is expanding fast - but much of it isn’t reaching the people who could use it most. Researchers struggle to amplify their i...
Global Monthly January 2026
WASHINGTON, December 22, 2025 - The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a project aimed at strengthening Croatia’s disaster preparedness and institutional, physical, financial and social resilience. The €100 million Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Development Policy Loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Opti...
WASHINGTON, December 19, 2025—The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $50 million project to support Sri Lanka’s digital transformation. The project will promote innovation and investment in Sri Lanka’s digital sector, modernize government services, and make them easier to access and more responsive to the needs of people and busine...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2025— A proliferating set of international standards—covering everything from food labeling to the specifications of 5G cellular networks—is steadily reshaping the global economic order, delivering hefty benefits to the wealthy nations and large multinational companies that set them while leaving many developing countries on the sid...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, December 4, 2025 — World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda today announced the first two Pacific projects to be delivered under the Full Mutual Reliance Framework, an innovative cofinancing model that will boost development impact.The framework will allow countries to work wit...
World Bank Was Largest Provider of Net New Financing to 78 Most Vulnerable Countries WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap in at least 50 years, according to the World Bank’s latest I...
DHAKA, November 25, 2025 — Bangladesh reduced poverty significantly between 2010-2022, lifting 34 million people out of poverty while improving living standards and access to essential services like electricity, education, and sanitation, but since 2016, the pace of poverty reduction slowed and economic growth became less inclusive, says a new r...
WASHINGTON, November 24, 2025—Countries in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) should urgently push to make more efficient use of existing economic assets and invest in the capabilities of its firms and people to unlock faster growth, according to a new World Bank report released today.The report, TIDES of Change: Igniting Productivity Growth in Europe and...
