2023年4月6日 · The World Bank aims to promote indigenous peoples' development in a manner which ensures that the development process fosters full respect for the dignity, human rights, and uniqueness of indigenous peoples.

2020年7月13日 · The current global wave of frustration against racial discrimination and social injustice has highlighted one troubling reality above all others – that marginalized groups continue to face challenges in accessing equal opportunities and accountability.

NAIROBI, December 10, 2024 — Kenya’s GDP is projected to grow at 4.7% in 2024, slower when compared to 5.6% in 2023 and closer to the country’s pre-pandemic average of 4.6% per year between 2011-2019, according to the latest Kenya Economic Update, launched today. Kenya’s real GDP is envisioned to gradually pick up in the medium term, but structural imbalances are …

Digital technologies are transforming economies, creating jobs, and improving lives. They have dramatically changed communications, business, health, education, finance and more. Yet the digital divide remains stark and is becoming synonymous with a development divide. Billions of people around the ...

Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. For food security objectives to …

2024年10月10日 · Investing in the education and human capital of girls and young women remains a priority for the World Bank. On International Day of the Girl Child we highlight the need to ensure equitable education for all girls and boys, especially in …

2016年3月28日 · Analytical reason would pair items that belong to the same abstract category—the rabbit and dog, which are both animals. Holistic reasoning would pair items that have a relationship to each other—the rabbit and carrots, a food to the rabbit. Psychologists tested the effect of culture on reasoning in over 1,000 university students across China.

2024年10月17日 · Emergency Water Security and Efficiency Project ($145.5 million): The World Bank supports Botswana in its efforts to increase the availability of water in drought-vulnerable areas, develop wastewater management in selected systems, and strengthen capacity in drought risk management and resilience.

2024年10月17日 · The transport sector is essential to reducing poverty and building prosperity: transport gives access to jobs, education and healthcare; it connects goods and services to markets and is a key driver of growth; finally, lowering the carbon footprint of the sector is crucial to tackle climate change. The World Bank works with client countries to provide safe, clean …

2021年12月16日 · As 2021 ends, we take a retrospective look at five topics that were covered in our analytical work this year. These issues represent just a fragment of the World Bank's work, but they are key to reducing poverty and hunger while slowing climate change.