With 189 member countries, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership fighting poverty worldwide through sustainable solutions.

Business Ready (B-READY) is a new World Bank Group corporate flagship report that evaluates the business and investment climate worldwide. It replaces and improves upon the Doing Business project.

The World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-30, developed through extensive consultations with stakeholders, focuses on concerted action, financing, and programs at scale to end gender-based violence and elevate human capital, expand economic opportunities, and …

Our Diversity The World Bank is a global leader for equity, diversity, gender equality and inclusion.

Global Commitments. In fiscal 2024, the World Bank Group provided much-needed financing, conducted research and analysis, and partnered with governments, the private sector, and other institutions to address global development challenges.

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From 1990 to 2017, developing countries increased their share of global exports from 16 percent to 30 percent; in the same period, the global poverty rate fell from 36 percent to 9 percent. Not all countries have benefited equally, but overall, trade has generated unprecedented prosperity, helping to lift some 1 billion people out of poverty in recent decades.

We are writing a new playbook to drive impactful development that is: Inclusive of everyone, including women and young people. Resilient to shocks, including against climate and biodiversity crises, pandemics and fragility.

The Bank Group, jointly with the IMF, conducted 117 Financial Sector Assessment Program reviews between fiscal year 2008 and March 2015, helping client counties identify vulnerabilities in their financial systems and develop appropriate policy responses. In fiscal 2015, ten Financial Sector Assessment Program reviews were conducted. The Bank Group conducted 29 crisis-simulation exercises ...

Nov 12, 2024 · What we committed. At COP28, the World Bank Group committed to increasing its climate finance from 35% to 45% of total lending for fiscal year 25, which runs from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.