Economic growth remained strong, and inflation declined sharply in the first half of 2024. The fiscal balance was positive owing to strong revenue performance. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth is projected...
Economic growth remained strong, and inflation declined sharply in the first half of 2024. The fiscal balance was positive owing to strong revenue performance. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth is projected...
How can we track the sustainability of economic progress and measure the changing wealth of nations? Until now, gross domestic product (GDP) has been the headline indicator for tracking economic progress...
Gross domestic product (GDP) is widely recognized as an insufficient measure of economic progress and national success. Since GDP is nearly universally available and comparable across countries, it is...
The Accelerating Digitalization Global Challenge Program (the “GCP” or the “Program”) seeks to respond to digital opportunities and challenges by enhancing the speed, scale, and impact of World Bank Group’s...
The IFC-sponsored Capital Markets Postgraduate Program—launched in 2016—is a roughly nine-month intensive training aimed at building a critical mass of qualified practitioners within key regulatory and...
Current investment trends in emerging market and developing economies are not enough to meet the needs of their growing populations and will fall short of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals related...
Viet Nam’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.4 percent (y/y) in H1-2024 after a moderate 5 percent growth in 2023, boosted by a rebound in manufacturing exports as well as higher consumption and investment...
Viet Nam’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.4 percent (y/y) in H1-2024 after a moderate 5 percent growth in 2023, boosted by a rebound in manufacturing exports as well as higher consumption and investment...
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program that provides cash to beneficiary households subject to their compliance with program conditionalities. Through...
This study provides guidance on World Bank involvement in Digital Communications Infrastructure (DCI) projects in which finance has been extended to support build-out. In particular, the study provides...
On July 30, 2024, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and nineteen. It was resolved that the 2024 regular election of Directors shall...
This paper summarizes evidence on financial instruments and regulatory approaches to spur private investment in pursuit of the 2030 Sustainable Developments Goals. Starting from a theoretical framework...
Developing a local currency bond market is an important development objective for Tanzania to diversify its funding sources and ensure financial resilience over the medium to long term. By rationalizing...
Current investment trends in emerging market and developing economies are not enough to meet the needs of their growing populations and will fall short of achieving the sustainable development goals related...
IFC builds the ecosystem for private investment in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies, through advisory services and capital market reforms, thereby improving access and opportunities.
IFC helps clients create insurance markets to serve emerging market consumers and enables insurers to invest in both capital markets and real sectors. IFC works in the insurance sector in three main areas:...
IFC invests directly in companies’ and financial institutions’ equity and also through private equity funds. IFC encourages companies it invests in to broaden share ownership through public listings, thereby...
Digital enablement and inclusion have proved to be the most impactful tools for transforming human interactions. Without disregarding demand-side enablement, one of the key supply-side considerations which...