Annual Meetings Live Events

Join leaders, experts and activists to discuss how we can best respond to the multiple overlapping crises facing developing countries. How can we work together to navigate an uncertain world?  Read more

October 10-16, 2022

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Annual Meetings Live Events

Join leaders, experts and activists to discuss how we can best respond to the multiple overlapping crises facing developing countries. How can we work together to navigate an uncertain world?  Read more

October 10-16, 2022

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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2022 : Reforms for Recovery

Growth in most countries in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region rebounded in the firstOverview.pdf half of 2022, but China lost momentum. In much of the region, domestic demand revived after the distress of the COVID-19 Delta wave. In China, the public health measures to contain outbreaks of the highly infectious Omicron variant inhibited consumption. Most of the region is projected to grow faster and have lower inflation in 2022 than other regions. Beyond the end of 2022, three factors could be a drag on growth: global deceleration, rising debt, and policy distortions. Current measures to contain inflation and debt are adding to existing distortions in the markets for food, fuel and finance in ways that could hurt growth. In each case, more efficient measures could address current difficulties without undermining longer-term objectives.
 
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“World Bank. 2022. World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2022 : Reforms for Recovery. Washington, DC : World Bank. © World Bank.
 

What does it take to deliver quality early learning that nurtures children’s full potential?

 

Annual Meetings Live Events

Join leaders, experts and activists to discuss how we can best respond to the multiple overlapping crises facing developing countries. How can we work together to navigate an uncertain world?  Read more

October 10-16, 2022

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Partnering with USAID Customer Experience Survey

We want to hear from you!

Have you partnered with USAID in the past? Want to partner with USAID in the future? We want to hear from you! At USAID, we are always looking for ways we can improve our partnership process and identify barriers that our partners are facing when competing for USAID funding. 

Please fill out our USAID Partnering Customer Experience Survey by October 22, 2022. We appreciate any insight you can provide! Your feedback is critical to our work.

 

World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan 2021–2025 : Supporting Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development

The Climate Change Action Plan 2021–2025 aims to advance the climate change aspects of CCAP-2021-25.pdfthe WBG’s Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development (GRID) approach, which pursues poverty eradication and shared prosperity with a sustainability lens. In the Action Plan, we will support countries and private sector clients to maximize the impact of climate finance, aiming for measurable improvements in adaptation and resilience and measurable reductions in GHG emissions. The Action Plan also considers the vital importance of natural capital, biodiversity, and ecosystems services and will increase support for nature-based solutions, given their importance for both mitigation and adaptation. As part of our effort to drive climate action, the WBG has a long-standing record of participating in key partnerships and high-level forums aimed at enhancing global efforts to address climate change. The new Action Plan represents a shift from efforts to “green” projects, to greening entire economies, and from focusing on inputs, to focusing on impacts. It focuses on (i) integrating climate and development; (ii) identifying and prioritizing action on the largest mitigation and adaptation opportunities; and (iii) using those to drive our climate finance and leverage private capital in ways that deliver the most results. That means helping the largest emitters flatten the emissions curve and accelerate the downward trend and ramping up financing on adaptation to help countries and private sector clients prepare for and adapt to climate change while pursuing broader development objectives through the GRID approach.
 
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“World Bank Group. 2021. World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan 2021–2025 : Supporting Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35799 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
 
 

World Bank Group Is Leading the Effort on Methane Emissions Reduction with Impactful Projects and Initiatives

Given the short-term potency of methane, cost-effective interventions to reduce landfill-1methane emissions should be an immediate priority for the sectors with the largest emissions. The agriculture, energy, sanitation and waste sectors are collectively responsible for 90-95% of global anthropogenic sources of methane:

  • Agriculture accounts for ~41% of methane emissions from human activity, including from rice cultivation and agriculture waste burning, manure management, and gas from cows and sheep;
  • Energy accounts for ~35%, including from oil and gas extraction, pumping, transport and coal mining;
  • Sanitation and waste account for ~20%, including from landfills and wastewater treatment.

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The World Bank and UNGA 77

The 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) convened on September 13, 2022 UNGAand ran through September 26, 2022. As the world faces broad crises driven by the global slowdown, the war in Ukraine, shortages of energy, fertilizer and food, rising interest rates and debt levels, and climate change, the World Bank Group was proud to join leaders from around the globe to discuss these pressing development issues and work with our global partners to find solutions to these challenges. 

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