Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

A legal environment that supports women is more important than ever. The COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected women. Besides the health impacts, lockdowns also exacerbated instances of ...

Today’s crises for security, affordability, and resilience make the energy transition more urgent than ever. But developing countries pay higher costs for the energy transition, which risks ...

We wrap up all the developments from the Meetings with Devex’s Raj Kumar. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed joins The Zone to talk about how to get the SDGs back on track and the partnerships ...

The Law, Justice and Development Week – LJD Week – is an annual conference organized by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. This year's theme is "Partnering for Impact: Mobilizing the Private ...

Watch a fireside chat with World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on their respective institutional goals going into COP28 in ...

Dr. Aawatif Hayar is the Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration, and Family. She was President of Hassan II University Casablanca 2019-2021. Since 2016, she has served as the Scientific Advisor of ...

Dr. Nadeem ul Haque is currently the Vice Chancellor of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Quaid-e-Azam University Campus, Islamabad. He also served as the deputy chairman of the Planning ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed participants at the Ministerial Roundtable Discussion for Support to Ukraine on 21 April via video link from Ukraine. He spoke about the enormous ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

Join World Bank President Ajay Banga and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Ilan Goldfajn for an insightful discussion about strategic and collaborative approaches in a world faced with ...

Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department, where he oversees the IMF’s operations and engagement with 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Before taking up his current position ...