We were honored to welcome Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Financial Health, to the IDB Group’s headquarters in Washington D.C.
The world is off-track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have
devastating implications for people’s lives worldwide. Evidence from the World Bank’s Atlas of the SDGs shows that some 574 million people—nearly seven percent of the world—will be severely restrained by extreme poverty in 2030 unless the poorest countries grow at rates never seen before.
The 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) convened on September 13, 2022 
and ran through September 26, 2022. As the world faces broad crises driven by the global slowdown, the war in Ukraine, shortages of energy, fertilizer and food, rising interest rates and debt levels, and climate change, the World Bank Group was proud to join leaders from around the globe to discuss these pressing development issues and work with our global partners to find solutions to these challenges.
Netherlands for the World Bank 