Mozambique and the World Bank have maintained continuous relations since the country joined the institution in 1984. Over these years, the World Bank has provided development assistance to Mozambique in...
Over the last five years, Nigeria has been carrying an ambitious reform agenda. The most far reaching of those was to base the budget on a conservative price for oil, with excess saved in special Excess...
Ghana is becoming a middle income economy through years of sustained economic growth, enhanced by the recent discoveries and commercialization of oil and gas. The country can become an example of how to...
Important economic and structural reforms, supported by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) helped Benin sustain growth rates averaging 4.7 percent annually during the last decade...
Burkina Faso's political stability over the past 15 years, together with a country-led transition to a more open, market-driven economic model, has provided the foundation for growth and poverty reduction...
International Development Association (IDA) has been Sierra Leone’s key source of continued and reliable development assistance since the country joined the World Bank in 1962, a year after its independence...
With a history of conflict and widespread poverty, Burundi has been working with the International Development Association (IDA) to rebuild peace and security, modernize public finance, provide basic services...
Fourteen years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), infrastructure and basic services have been restored to prewar levels, while the country and its people have made substantial progress in their...
Over the past two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia’s economic transformation has been profound. The economy today is market oriented and highly receptive to trade, capital, and technological...
Burkina Faso has maintained relative macroeconomic stability. In the decade preceding 2007, the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate averaged about 6 percent per year and poverty incidence declined...
Following decades of instability and several natural disasters, Nicaragua has achieved a remarkable economic turnaround, and is now focused on innovative ways of reducing poverty, particularly in remote...
International Development Association (IDA) is working alongside the people of Haiti to rebuild after the devastating earthquake that killed up to 230,000 people and wounded just as many on January 12...
Niger is a vast landlocked country in the Sahel, with an estimated 14.7 million people, the majority of whom live along a narrow band of arable land on the country’s southern border. Although endowed with...
Mozambique has emerged from decades of war to become one of Africa’s best-performing economies. One of the poorest countries in the world at independence, the country has enjoyed a remarkable recovery...
With strong, broad-based economic growth for close to two decades, Ghana today has reason to be optimistic. The country has enjoyed two peaceful democratic transitions, with a strong civil society and...
Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. It is going through a far-reaching transformation from an inward looking planned economy to one that is globalized and market based. It has...
Strong macroeconomic management, coupled with rapid growth in mining, construction, telecommunications and tourism, helped spur Zambia’s economic growth to 5 percent on average during 2001-2008. The economy...
After successfully ending eleven years of devastating war in March 2002, Sierra Leone has made considerable progress in establishing security and restoring public services, with notable improvements in...
Faced with external and internal shocks since 2006, including the 2009 global financial crisis, Senegal, with support from the International Development Association (IDA) support, has made progress towards...
Since 2003, Liberia has achieved great progress in the face of considerable difficulties and risks. It has held democratic elections, reestablished a public financial management system, begun rebuilding...