Data can improve lives only when it is effectively used to generate insights and inform decisions. Data literacy and the enabling environment to access and use data are crucial to empower all people ...

The global economy could get a $20 trillion boost if women were allowed to participate in the workforce at the same level as ...

→ forms part of a new, collaborative global effort for financing data, → ensures that local demand drives funding, → serves as a global coordination mechanism, → helps to implement a new global vision ...

World Bank President Ajay Banga said boosting access to electricity is the key to unlocking the demographic dividend in the ...

Global growth should remain stable this year and next, but at recent historic lows, the World Bank said Thursday, expressing particular concern about growth in developing countries.

Global life expectancy at birth recovered from a two-year decline in 2022 but has yet to return to the record high hit in 2019. The most recent figures available from the World Bank indicate ...

Japan's central bank has increased the cost of borrowing to its highest level in 17 years after consumer price rises ...