WASHINGTON D.C., March 30, 2026 – The World Bank has approved a $500 million International Development Association (IDA) credit for the Nigeria Sustainable Agricultural Value-Chains for Growth (AGROW) Project, aimed at increasing smallholder farmers productivity, strengthening agricultural value chains, and creating jobs while improving food and nutrition security.
Continue readingWASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2026 — The World Bank’s Board of Directors approved a new project in Brazil’s Legal Amazon to support jobs, expand renewable energy generation, and lower energy costs across one of the world’s most ecologically significant regions. The project will help create quality jobs, expand access to reliable electricity for more than one million residents currently without basic energy services, and support the Amazon in attracting investment and securing its share of the growing global clean energy economy.
Continue readingNew project will modernize geoscientific data, streamline permitting, and unlock private investment in strategic minerals
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2026 — The World Bank Board of Directors approved a new project to support Peru in becoming more competitive, transparent, and sustainable in the mining sector—laying the foundation for more and better jobs across the value chain.
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WASHINGTON, February 26, 2026 – Millions of young people across Eastern and Southern Africa stand to gain skills they need to thrive through a new regional program that is designed to support job creation at scale. By 2034, 18 million young people in the region are expected to receive better education and skills, unlocking opportunities in key economic sectors through the program that will also contribute to millions of new jobs.
Continue readingOver the past 15 years, even as incomes have risen and poverty has declined, nearly two-thirds of low- and middle-income countries have experienced setbacks in nutrition, learning, or workforce skills.
Among all low- and middle-income countries, gaps in these outcomes from what should be achievable are large, and the potential cost is cause for alarm: an estimated 51 percent loss in future earnings. Behind this number are children growing up with fewer opportunities to thrive, families struggling to secure a stable future, and communities at risk of losing hard-won social gains.
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