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Spring Meetings 2015

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With 1.2 billion young people in emerging economies reaching working age over the next decade—and only about 420 million jobs expected to be generated—the urgency of finding scalable and sustainable solutions has never been greater.

SPRING MEETINGS 2025

Jobs – The Path to Prosperity

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
2:00-3:30 PM EDT/GMT-4 (local time)

Event | Spring Meetings 2025: Jobs – The Path to Prosperity | World Bank Live

This event tackles one of the defining and complex challenges of our time: how to meet the stable employment aspirations of the developing world’s fast-growing youth population.

Through powerful stories of young entrepreneurs, dialogue with private sector executives, and insights from World Bank Group leadership, the session will explore how to energize the creation of more and better jobs. From innovation to investment, skills to sectors, this event will be a moment to catalyze collective action for a future where every young person has a pathway to decent work.

The event will take place on April 22 at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. and will be broadcast on World Bank Live with interpretation in Arabic, French and Spanish.

Spring Meetings | World Bank Group

Secure Property Rights in the Western Balkans Help Grow Businesses and Create Jobs

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Entrepreneurs like Dženana are benefiting from easier property registration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Streamlining access to property ownership supports entrepreneurs in the Western Balkans, allowing them to focus on innovation and expansion.
  • With World Bank assistance, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia have digitized land registration processes facilitating new business ventures.
  • Empowering small and medium-sized businesses is crucial for creating jobs, strengthening supply chains, and boosting economic growth.
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MENA is open to work: Tackling the jobs deficit

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a large reservoir of untapped human resources, with the world’s highest unemployment rate among youth and the lowest participation of females in the labor force. Desirable jobs, defined as high-paying or formal jobs, are few, and private employment is overwhelmingly of low added value.

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Lighting Up Eastern Africa: How Greater Access to Energy is Creating Jobs and Improving Public Services in Rural Ethiopia

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  • Ethiopia has made significant progress in energy access in recent years; however, despite a 94% electrification rate in urban areas, around 60 million Ethiopians remain without electricity access.
  • The World Bank-supported Ethiopia Electrification Program (ELEAP), has facilitated nearly 1.3 million on-grid connections, providing electricity to about 6.3 million people, and more than 19,000 public facilities such as schools, healthcare centers, and administrative government buildings, across Ethiopia.
  • ELEAP has supported the installation of 11 mini-grids, bringing electricity to nearly 20,000 people in isolated communities, promoting social and economic growth, and particularly benefiting rural women.
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2024 Annual Meetings: Agriculture and Food

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The global agriculture and food system can do more than just feed a growing population—it holds immense potential as a driver of growth and job creation. However, to unlock this potential for the long term, the agrifood system needs to prioritize nutrition, climate resilience, and halting environmental degradation.

This flagship event at the World Bank Annual Meetings 2024 will explore how governments and businesses can lead this transformation.

Have questions? Don’t wait—submit them below. Our experts will be responding live on October 23rd! 

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For a Just Transition Away from Coal, People Must Be at the Center

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  • If not phased out before 2040, coal will push the world closer to climate change catastrophe.
  • Experience has shown that the shift from coal can take decades and present not only economic and employment challenges, but social and cultural ones.
  • The Supporting Energy Transition in Coal Regions initiative provides advice and financing to countries that have made the decision to transition away from coal.

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Behind the Mission: Ask the Recruiters

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Getting a job at a complex institution like the World Bank Group can be daunting. In this Behind the Mission episode, you will have direct access to recruiters representing both the World Bank and IFC. They’ll demystify the job search, share their insights and tips, and also debunk common myths about the World Bank Group. Join us for the live conversation on October 26th!

  • Anna Frick, Senior Recruiter, The World Bank
  • Mabel Udoh, Senior Recruiter, IFC
  • Magali Rodriguez Reyes, Recruiter, World Bank
  • Rudy Perecin Mareño, Recruiter, IFC

ABOUT Behind the Mission: Working at the World Bank Group: Who are we? Where do we work? What do we do? Why join us? And, what’s it really like to work at the World Bank Group? In this series, our staff answer questions live about working for a unique global partnership as the World Bank Group, with 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations. Watch our previous episodes Continue reading →

Six strategies to increase young women’s access to digital jobs

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The digital economy can create new job opportunities for young women and help address theuniversity_students_in_senegal persistent gender disparity in the labor market.

Jobs involving remote, online, flexible work can help young women overcome mobility constraints, challenge restrictive gender norms, and reduce longstanding occupational segregation in traditionally male-dominated industries. However, practitioners would need to be intentional about using better targeted strategies in program design to help young women succeed in high-quality digital jobs , and also move up to higher skilled and higher paying digital jobs over time.

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Coronavirus Live Series: Supporting Companies and Preserving Jobs through the Pandemic

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The economic impact of #COVID19 will hit developing countries hard. What can be done to support companies and preserve jobs? Join IFC’s Chief Operating Officer, Stephanie von Friedeburg, for discussion on the topic.