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Have you taken a look at Work with USAID’s YouTube channel recently? This is a great resource to help you navigate partnering with USAID. The YouTube channel contains playlists where you can find videos specific to your needs. “Resources on WorkwithUSAID.gov” holds demo videos to help you explore the WorkwithUSAID.gov platform. You can also view recordings of webinars like the Business Forecast and Partner Updates webinars to better understand the Agency’s priorities and the How to Work with USAID 101 webinars to learn how USAID approaches funding. Also, check out our video resources in French, Arabic, and Spanish!

Despite High Potential, 75 Vulnerable Economies Face ‘Historic Reversal’

In Half of IDA Countries, Income Gap with Wealthiest Economies is Widening

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2024Despite their high potential to advance global prosperity, one-half of the world’s 75 most vulnerable countries are facing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time in this century, a new World Bank report has found. Taking full advantage of their younger populations, their rich natural resources, and their abundant solar-energy potential can help them overcome the setback.

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Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System

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Recipe for a Livable Planet is the first comprehensive global roadmap for mitigating the agrifood system’s contributions to climate change. It shows how the agriculture system that produces the world’s food can cut greenhouse gas emissions while continuing to feed the world.

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New Guarantee Platform Delivers Efficiency, Simplicity to Boost Impact

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Beginning July 1, the World Bank Group’s one-stop guarantee platform will bring together all of its guarantee products and experts.
  • The platform will help provide transparency and certainty for the World Bank Group’s clients across the guarantee process, with a better client experience.
  • Streamlining these offerings will help maximize the limited capital available for impactful development in emerging markets and developing economies.
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World Bank Group Aims to Expand Health Services to 1.5 Billion People

Focus on improved affordability, expanded geographic reach, increased scope of services

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2024—The World Bank Group today announced an ambitious plan to support countries in delivering quality, affordable health services to 1.5 billion people by 2030. This is part of a larger global effort to provide a basic standard of care through every stage of a person’s life—infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

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Becoming a Better Bank

The world is facing a set of intertwined challenges: climate crisis, debt, food insecurity, pandemics, and fragility; and a need to accelerate access to clean air, water, and energy. Time is of the essence.

We need a better Bank to address these challenges – but also a better Bank for the challenges of tomorrow.

The G20 Leaders challenged the World Bank Group to change and be a more significant part of the solution – with the ambition for speed, simplicity, better leveraging our balance sheet, and engaging partners and the private sector. We are in the process of implementing their recommendations.  

We are building a faster, quicker Bank. We want to become a better partner to governments, the private sector, and, ultimately, the people we serve. 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Recap: 2024 IMF/WBG Spring Meeting