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.

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 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 ...

国際開発金融機関のひとつである世界銀行は、我々の夢は生活しやすい地球上で貧困の無い世界をつくること（Our dream is a world free of poverty on a livable planet）をビジョン・ステートメントとして掲げています。

Jun 3, 2024 · The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. The database contains 1,400 time series indicators for 217 economies and more than 40 country groups, with data for many indicators going back more than 50 years.

Latest news and information from the World Bank and its development work in Angola. Access Angola’s economy facts, statistics, project information, development research from experts and latest news.

Dec 3, 2024 · Developing countries spent a record $1.4 trillion to service their foreign debt as their interest costs climbed to a 20-year high in 2023, the World Bank’s latest International Debt Report shows. Interest payments surged by nearly a third to $406 billion, squeezing the budgets of many countries in critical areas such as health, education, and the environment.

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 ...