These efforts are backed by unprecedented World Bank investment. Today, close to $30 billion in social protection financing ...

Formal MSME Finance Gap in Developing Countries What We Do A key area of the World Bank Group’s work is to improve SMEs’ access to finance and find innovative solutions to unlock sources of capital.

Description The World Bank strives to enhance public access to and use of data that it collects and publishes. The data are organized in datasets listed in The World Bank Data Catalog (the “Datasets”) ...

Climate change and food and nutrition insecurity pose two of the greatest development challenges of our time. Yet a more sustainable food system can not only heal the planet, but ensure food security ...

The Explore History describes the history of World Bank Group and provides access to a number of informative sites and resources, such as the Past Presidents Profiles, World Bank Group Historical ...

GovTech is a whole of government approach to public sector modernization. It emphasizes three aspects of public sector modernization: citizen-centric, universally accessible public services, and whole ...

At COP27 countries agreed to establish new funding arrangements for assisting developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

The CBAM Exposure Indexes is designed to identify countries with a high exposure to the EU CBAM, using carbon emissions intensity and exports of CBAM products to the EU.

Development Policy Financing (DPF) provides rapidly disbursing financing to help a borrower address actual or anticipated development financing requirements. DPF supports borrowers in achieving ...

More than half of the world's population lives in cities. Learn more about what the World Bank is doing to create green, resilient, and inclusive urban development. Access facts, statistics, project ...

Ten Pacific Island countries which are members of the World Bank have a population of about 3.4 million people, scattered across an area equivalent to 15 percent of the globe’s surface, with a ...

The Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey is a unique source of comparable economy-level data on how banks are regulated and supervised around the world.