As global leaders gather at COP29 in Baku, a priority for Africa is clear: accelerating access to reliable and sustainable electricity. Today, nearly one in two people in Africa lack access to ...

The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility officially closed on April 30, 2021. The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) – a financing mechanism, now closed, that was housed at the World Bank – ...

Santiago, Chile, Jan. 06, 2024 – Chile has received $5.1 million from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) for reducing 1.03 million tons of carbon emissions from deforestation ...

American University’s Stefanie Onder and the World Bank’s Diego Herrera discuss measures of a nation’s economic status that are more effective than GDP. Sir Partha Dasgupta likened this to a soccer ...