A wide range of organizations operate at the interface between the demand for (e.g. water agencies or service providers) and the supply of finance (e.g. financing institutions and financiers at large)...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), especially female entrepreneurs, face steep challenges in accessing finance and credit. This situation is now even more dire...
This paper uses Mongolia’s Household Socio Economic Survey for 2016 to estimate the distributive impact of taxes and transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions...
The United Nations decade of action for road safety 2011-2020 sets an ambitious goal to stabilize and then reduce by half the predicted level of traffic fatalities in low and middle-income countries by...
Terrorism can endanger innocent human life and tear the very threads that hold society together, namely, trust and security. Governments have mobilized a variety of tools in response, ranging from the...
"Mfuko wa Elimu Msingi" - or the Community Education Fund (CEF) - was started in 1995. It was extended as one of the two key components under the Human Resources Development Project (HRDP) launched in...
"Mfuko wa Elimu Msingi" - or the Community Education Fund (CEF) - was started in 1995. It was extended as one of the two key components under the Human Resources Development Project (HRDP) launched in...
Given the rural nature of most African economies and the concentration of the poor in rural areas, there is a pressing need to increase capacity to promote agricultural development. The studies discussed...
Given the rural nature of most African economies and the concentration of the poor in rural areas, there is a pressing need to increase capacity to promote agricultural development. The studies discussed...
Given the rural nature of most African economies and the concentration of the poor in rural areas, there is a pressing need to increase capacity to promote agricultural development. The studies discussed...
A proposed Currency Convertibility Fund, backstopped by a contingent credit from the International Development Association (IDA)-the World Bank's concessionary window for the world's poorest countries-has...
On October 6, 1994, the International Development Assocoation (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and eighty. It was resolved that the Boards of Governors of the International...
On July 22, 1992, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred eighty. It was resolved that, by accepting membership in the Corporation, the Republic...
On May 31, 1963 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and eighty. It was resolved that the by accepting membership in the...
This press release announces the Bank is sending a mission to Iran for one month.