The Energy Progress Report assesses achievements in the global quest for universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030. In 2023, the global effort to improve access ...

This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms ...

More developing economies are turning to off-budget and more complex borrowing arrangements in response to a tighter financing environment, making it harder to fully assess public debt exposures, ...

Rwanda's Journey to Job Creation A sunny June day in a Kigali market, a young girl named Joy sets out a small basket of oranges along the road. She had left school due to financial hardship, and now ...

The report, Powering More with Less; Scaling up Energy Efficiency for Growth and Security, presents a compelling case for prioritizing energy efficiency in energy sector policies, targets, and ...

Flows of foreign direct investment into developing economies have dwindled to the lowest level since 2005 amid rising trade ...

Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing economies—a key propellant of economic growth and higher living standards—have dwindled to the lowest level since 2005 amid rising trade and ...

China’s economy maintained growth momentum in early 2025, with real GDP expanding by 5.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter. Policy support helped boost consumption and spurred a pickup in home ...

Over one quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions are covered by carbon pricing. WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025—Carbon pricing revenues exceeded $100 billion in 2024, according to a new World Bank report ...

2025 Growth Forecasts Cut for 70 Percent of Economies. WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025— Heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty are expected to drive global growth down this year to its slowest ...

Rice feeds over half of the world’s population and sustains 144 million people—80 percent of them smallholder farmers. With a projected 30 percent surge in demand by 2050, the rice industry will only ...

In this World Development Report 2025 seminar series, Benedict Kingsbury (Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law, New York University Law School) discusses "Standards and Law: Key Issues ...