In their decades-long efforts to spur strong economic growth and significantly reduce poverty, countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) also successfully improved education...
The last week saw the United Nations General Assembly as the focal point for global affairs, with the center stage given to the confrontation between a...
When world leaders gathered in New York for the 70th session of the General Assembly in 2016, and proclaimed the period 2016-2025 as the Third Industrial...
Lessons from the impact of the global economic crisis a decade ago, plus a sustained period of economic growth, has helped to drive substantial social development...
Here’s a statistic: 75 percent of the infrastructure that will be required globally in 2050 has yet to be built. That sounds daunting, but the truth...
Sri Lanka is widely recognized for its rapid development progress—as shown by various development indicators—but underperformance on growth. The country’s growth slowed to 3.2% in 2018....
The World Bank Group today honored His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Amir of the State of Kuwait, for his exemplary role in supporting...
The European Union and its Member States continued to be the world’s leading provider of official development assistance in 2018 and stepped up their efforts directed...
Three years of implementation of the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific shows the region has some catching up to do....
A new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including water security and climate resilience, according to a...