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 ...

The World Bank is supporting India’s efforts to give the country’s fast-growing young workforce access to skills needed to drive the economy of the future. The Bank-financed $250 million Skill India ...

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.

Nearly 2 million people in the Sahel have benefitted from the World Bank financing that provided emergency relief to support food and humanitarian assistance, as well as to promote investments in the ...

Delivery of community filters as part of the Crecer Sano project in Guatemala. Photo courtesy of Guatemala's Ministry of Health In the remote highlands of Guatemala, where families have long struggled ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone reached its target of providing 1 million children with education through remote learning during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. In Edo State, Nigeria, 56 percent of Primary and Junior ...

Since its launch in 2019, Baxnaano has provided a platform for the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) to play a new and continuing role in social safety net provision to households facing chronic ...

Since 2009, the World Bank has been supporting Kazakhstan in the strategic development of the South-West and East-West Road Projects. Through this support, Kazakhstan has enhanced its transit ...

Gender equality is central to the World Bank’s mission of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. In Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE), where women and girls face unique disadvantages ...

For the past 30 years, the World Bank has partnered with Tajikistan to help boost economic growth, reduce poverty, and unleash the country’s full development potential. When COVID-19 hit, the World ...

In Mozambique, frontline health workers are the community’s first point of contact with the National Health System. They provide primary healthcare and teach communities about nutrition and disease ...