World Bank Group President Ajay Banga addressed the press at the 2025 Spring Meetings Opening Press Conference. “We're trying to change things here and look to deploy proven tools to unlock growth, to ...

Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

Simone Tebet is the Minister of Planning and Budgeting of Brazil. She was a Senator for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul between 2015 and 2022. In the Federal Senate, she led the first women's caucus ...

World Bank President Ajay Banga and Anna Bjerde, the World Bank's Managing Director of Operations, addressed the press ahead of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group 2024 Annual Meetings.

Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department, where he oversees the IMF’s operations and engagement with 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Before taking up his current position ...

During the event, Ajay Banga addressed the interconnected challenges facing the world today, and the concrete ways the World Bank has delivered to better tackle the toughest challenges facing ...

Dan Murphy is a globally renowned CNBC Anchor and Correspondent based in the United Arab Emirates, reporting on business, markets, economics and geopolitics from across the region of the Middle East.

Salah Ahmed Jama is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia. Salah previously served as the Minister of Labour and as the Minister of Constitutional Affairs. Prior to working in ...

Watch a fireside chat with World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on their respective institutional goals going into COP28 in ...

The Law, Justice and Development Week – LJD Week – is an annual conference organized by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. This year's theme is "Partnering for Impact: Mobilizing the Private ...

Wendy Cunningham is a Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Human Capital Project. During her 20 years at the World Bank, Wendy has carried out research and provided operational support on issues related ...

Nangamso is currently the CEO of Funda Wande and an experienced education leader. Before being appointed as CEO, her previous portfolios included being Funda Wande’s Versioning and Relationships lead ...