With 189 member countries, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership fighting poverty worldwide through sustainable solutions.

Construction of a reservoir in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1973, with World Bank funding, aimed to improve water supply and sewerage services in and around the city. This was the first comprehensive action taken to restore ecological balance in the rivers and part of the Bank’s first loan for environmental projects.

The World Bank Group works in every major area of development. We provide a wide array of financial products and technical assistance and help countries share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to tackle today’s intertwined development challenges.

The World Bank is a global leader for equity, diversity, gender equality and inclusion. ...

The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Report proposes ways Vietnam can boost its resilience to climate change and accelerate its transition to a low carbon economy, while achieving its development ...

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The World Bank Group comprises five institutions managed by their member countries. Established in 1944, the World Bank Group ...

The Bank’s first loan was to France and loans to other European countries followed. But when the 1947 Marshall Plan took over post-war reconstruction efforts in Europe, the Bank quickly shifted to funding infrastructure projects around the world in sectors such …

For more than five decades, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, have helped shape policies in development finance by sharing timely and comprehensive external debt data and analysis with the international community.

The World Bank In Cambodia Over the two decades before COVID-19 struck in 2020, Cambodia blossomed economically. Having reached lower middle-income status in 2015, it set its signs on attaining upper middle-income status by 2030.

The World Bank In Thailand . Thailand is one of the great development success stories. Due to smart economic policies it has become an upper middle income economy and is making progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.