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Regional Economic Updates

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Here are the latest bi-annual regional economic updates to explore the macro developmentecon-update trends in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia. 

These reports are issued the week before the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings in Morocco, October 9-15.

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Infrastructure, economics, and a sustainable future: A Chief Economist’s perspective

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In the 1990s, I embarked on a journey that took me from the classrooms of Paris to theinfrastructure-1440x500.jpg dusty countryside of Paraguay. Little did I know then that my diverse experiences, from peddling goods door-to-door to advising governments, would shape my role as an economist specializing in infrastructure and development. Now, as the Chief Economist for Infrastructure at the World Bank, I stand at the intersection of a complex global landscape. 

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Climate Action Game Changers: Urban Transport

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Your commute to work, the family gathering, the food on your table, and the goods you buy –dakar-2029x1353 all rely on transport and our lives are unthinkable without it. But transport also represents a growing threat to our planet. Buses, cars, planes, ships, and trucks burn fossil fuels, and this causes climate change.

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The Future of Financial Inclusion

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Financial inclusion 2.0. – creating more inclusive, resilient, and green futures

In recent years, the world has faced many unprecedented shocks and stresses that have exacerbated existing development challenges—all of which have disproportionate impacts on the most vulnerable, especially women and girls. People living in poverty constantly juggle an evolving set of risks and crises in their daily lives. However, the additional challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks have intensified poverty and inequality. The World Bank now projects that 7% of the world’s population—more than half a billion people—will remain in extreme poverty in 2030 (Figure 1). The World Economic Forum predicts that the timeline to close the global gender gap1 has increased by a full generation (from 99.5 years to 135.6 years).

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Annual Meetings: World Bank Events

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The World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings are back this year from 800d55482b8a001430e9bd85208db430e8752f1021f4bcb1d0087a3ce4d82684October 9-15, and we hope you’ll join us! 

Live from Marrakech, Morocco, the 2023 Meetings focus on what it will take to end poverty on a livable planet. Events will explore the new playbook we need to respond to intertwined global challenges. What solutions have worked on the ground in developing countries? How do we boost jobs, digital infrastructure, and climate action?

Mark your calendar and sign up for email reminders to join our public events online. This is your opportunity to interact with central bankers, ministers, private sector executives, civil society representatives, youth leaders, academics, and others on issues facing our world today. Ask questions to our experts and join the conversation with the hashtag #WBmeetings, as we bring you our events in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.