Launched in July 2025, the Philippines Growth and Jobs Report (GJR) provides an evidence-based reform roadmap. Since the launch, the report has been key in promoting a national debate on accelerating ...

Over 111,000 beneficiaries were trained in market-relevant short-term vocational skills through five rounds of project-supported programs. Eighty-five (85) percent of trainees were female or youth ...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces critical challenges for digital development, including underdeveloped digital infrastructure, lack of accessible and affordable connectivity, a stubborn digital gender ...

Well-designed digital solutions have the potential to alleviate the impacts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) and address FCV-related risks and drivers that undermine economic and social ...

The World Bank SHIFT (Securing Human Investments to Foster Transformation) program sought to improve the rights and conditions of home-based workers (HBWs) and other vulnerable women working in ...

In the past five years, countries in Africa have experienced a considerable increase in public debt and risk, as the shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have compounded ...

Natural hazards, some fueled by a changing climate, have a devastating effect on children’s education and lives in every corner of the globe. Through its Global Program for Safer Schools (GPSS), the ...

TKP was launched in 2015 to mitigate the impact of economic reforms on the poor including energy subsidy removal. It was designed as a well-targeted cash transfer program with a solid delivery system, ...

The World Bank is supporting India’s efforts to give the country’s fast-growing young workforce access to skills needed to drive the economy of the future. The Bank-financed $250 million Skill India ...

Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is set to potentially transform the labor market, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Studies about its possible impacts have generally focused on ...

For more than 30 years, the Bank has supported the efforts of Central Asian countries in improving the living standards of their people and promoting economic growth. Now, the Bank is increasingly ...

World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) for 2021-2025 aims to integrate climate and development to maximize the climate impact of its projects. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program’s ...