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India: World Bank Approves Three Projects in Assam State to Increase Access to Markets, Jobs and Services

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2026 —The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved three projects to help the Indian state of Assam increase resilience to extreme weather events, improve governance and service delivery, and provide more than 4 million students with the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.  

Assam, located in India’s northeast, is uniquely positioned as the gateway to Southeast Asia, offering strategic connectivity for regional trade and integration. At the same time, Assam faces challenges such as climate vulnerability, inadequate infrastructure, and multidimensional poverty, which hinder inclusive growth.

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Level Up MENA: How digital education and skills are powering the next generation of jobs

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Imagine landing your dream engineering role at one of Silicon Valley’s top technology companies – from your apartment in Riyadh, Cairo, or Beirut. This dream is now within reach for thousands in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), provided they have the right skills.

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Education is a key to jobs, growth, and lifelong learning

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Education is a foundation for good jobs and the surest way out of poverty. We know a good education equips learners with important foundational skills—literacy, numeracy, and socio-emotional competencies—which are essential for work and life. These skills help today’s children become tomorrow’s productive workers and enable workers to reskill or upskill later in life.  

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Pakistan: World Bank Announces New Education Project to Benefit Over Four Million Children in Punjab

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WASHINGTON, August 23, 2025— The World Bank has approved a US$ 47.9 million grant, funded by the Global Partnership for Education Fund, to help improve girls’ and boys’ participation at pre-primary and primary levels in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The new support is expected to improve learning outcomes at the primary level and strengthen remedial learning support at the elementary level of schooling.

The “Getting Results: Access and Delivery of Quality Education Services and System Transformation in Punjab Project” will expand early childhood education, re-enroll out-of-school children, strengthen teacher support, and improve the education sector’s responsiveness to climate change and emergencies.

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International Day of Education 2025: Digital solutions for equitable education systems

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The 2025 International Day of Education inspires reflectionson the power of education to equip individuals and communities navigate, understand and influence technological advancement. This year the focus is “AI and Education: Preserving Agency in a World of Automation.”

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Côte d’Ivoire’s Debt-for-Development Swap, Enabled by the World Bank Group, Will Free up Funds for Education

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ABIDJAN, December 5, 2024 – With support from the World Bank Group, Côte d’Ivoire will complete a debt-for-development swap, a transaction designed to improve the country’s debt profile and generate significant fiscal savings. The money saved by replacing expensive debt with cheaper financing will be used to improve education across the country. This will be the first debt-for-development swap of its kind supported by the World Bank Group.

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Introduction: Advisor to Executive Director Nadia van Huisstede

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About 3 months ago (September 2024) I started my position at the Dutch executive NvH_pasfotodirector’s office at the World Bank. Coming from the NL Ministry of Finance, my previous job was coordinating the team responsible for World Bank, IMF and G20 matters where my focus was on the World Bank and sovereign debt. Great to be at the Bank now and to remain engaged – albeit in a different role – in the leading multilateral development bank.

In previous roles at the Ministry of Finance I focused on the European Investment Bank and on the NL budget. My expertise is in financial issues (capital increases, domestic resource mobilization, illicit financial flows, financial instruments). No surprises there when looking at my background.

At the Bank I will continue to cover those issues and IDA, climate including biodiversity & nature and procurement.

 

 
 
 

 

Finding a path to peace, stability, and development in Haiti

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Less than an hour after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday last week we were ida-haiti-1140x500already at the National Emergency Operation Center of the Direction Générale de la Protection Civile discussing how the International Development Association (IDA) can help strengthen the country’s disaster risk management capacity. Remarkably, the center was launched in May 2024 despite the ongoing security and political crisis at the time, demonstrating the resilience of the IDA program implementation in Haiti. We witnessed similar results in other programs and during the field visit to the Southern Peninsula, where IDA projects are having a visible impact on the lives of the Haitian residents of that area.  

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