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The World Bank Group mobilized more private capital in fiscal year 2026 than in any year in its history and issued a record volume of guarantees, delivering on a goal shareholders and clients have ...

This thematic study discusses strategies for sustainable financing of secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report provides insight into options for financing the expansion of secondary ...

Early Childhood and Preschool Education (ECPE) plays an important role in Ukraine’s human capital, social, and economic development. At the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine ...

In a world filled with risk and potential, social protection systems help individuals and families especially the poor and vulnerable cope with crises and shocks, find jobs, improve productivity, ...

Global housing demand is rising rapidly, yet the combined pressures of future population growth, climate-driven hazard intensification, and constrained fiscal capacity have not been assessed together ...

This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, focusing on the provisions they contain, beyond phasing out tariffs. Clustering 278 preferential trade agreements based on ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group focused on the private sector, has launched a risk-sharing initiative to help banks, fintechs, and other financial ...

Bringing together governments, educators, researchers, technology partners, and development practitioners to explore how AI can improve learning, strengthen teachers, and prepare young people for the ...

This paper examines how invasion-related disruption reshapes the demand for digital skills. The analysis uses a novel dataset of millions of online job vacancies in Ukraine from 2021 to 2025 ...

The World Bank’s Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025 explores how AI is accelerating growth in developing countries, while highlighting persistent gaps in access, infrastructure, and skills.

Thu Duc, a rapidly urbanizing area of Ho Chi Minh City, is well located and heavily invested in policy ambition, yet its output and density remain far below what its position in the metropolitan ...