With nearly 3 million women and girls reached, SWEDD/SWEDD+ demonstrates that investment in women's education and workforce ...

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Feeding a global population of 10 billion by 2050 sustainably will depend on how countries balance food production with water resources. Today’s global food systems leave major opportunities untapped ...

The 2026 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group will take place from Monday, October 12 to Sunday, October 18 in Bangkok, Thailand. Keystones of the Annual ...

The World Bank facilitated technical assistance to explore Mongolia’s first industrial-scale water recycling scheme, an ...

Project is expanding grid access and has installed so far 150,000 meters and 20,000 streetlights, connecting nearly 145,000 households, 2,789 small businesses, and 451 public institutions, while also ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022: Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia shows the country has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, but that some recent gains ...

In response to a widespread and worsening water crisis, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are taking strong steps to ensure a water-secure future for their citizens. In the process, ...

Water has always influenced where we live. Today, as climate change accelerates the global water crisis, the relentless increase in the movement of people around the world requires a considered ...

In the last 15 years, Bangladesh’s annual per capita plastic consumption in urban areas tripled to 9 kg in 2020 from 3 kg in 2005. COVID-19 pandemic has worsened plastic pollution. A large part of the ...