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The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law index examines how legal barriers limit women’s economic opportunities in 190 economies, ultimately impeding economic growth. Watch the video and express your interest in our learning course.

Organized by the Institute and the Coalition for Capacity on Climate Action (C3A), this event will facilitate discussions around the upcoming World Bank Policy and Research Report (PRR) on “Rethinking Resilience: Empowering People for a Changing Climate.”

World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and World Bank Group Chief Economist Indermit Gill introduced the Institute during the conference "Italy and the World Bank Group: Partnering for Africa's Prosperity." The event presented the Institute as a collaborative hub for innovative solutions and ideas.

The Institute and the World Bank's Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice announce a new learning series based on World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.

Global commodity prices are set to tumble to a five-year low in 2025 amid an oil glut that is so large that it is likely to limit the price effects even of a wider conflict in the Middle East, according to the World Bank's latest Commodity Markets Outlook. 

World Development Report 2024: The Middle-Income Trap explores the challenges of economic growth in middle-income countries, which account for about 75 percent of the world’s population and 50 percent of the world’s extremely poor people.