Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

We wrap up all the developments from the Meetings with Devex’s Raj Kumar. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed joins The Zone to talk about how to get the SDGs back on track and the partnerships ...

Helena Lindberg is the first Director General for the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) that was established in January 2009. She was previously the Director General for the Swedish Emergency ...

Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou is the current Director General of the National Agency for the information society (Ansi). He is also the former Minister - Special Advisor of the President of the Republic and ...

Join us for the launch of a new Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP) report recommending the most effective ways to keep children learning during and post-pandemic. A new report, ...

A legal environment that supports women is more important than ever. The COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected women. Besides the health impacts, lockdowns also exacerbated instances of ...

Join World Bank President Ajay Banga and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Ilan Goldfajn for an insightful discussion about strategic and collaborative approaches in a world faced with ...

Simone Tebet is the Minister of Planning and Budgeting of Brazil. She was a Senator for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul between 2015 and 2022. In the Federal Senate, she led the first women's caucus ...

The Law, Justice and Development Week – LJD Week – is an annual conference organized by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. This year's theme is "Partnering for Impact: Mobilizing the Private ...

Watch a fireside chat with World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on their respective institutional goals going into COP28 in ...

Mr. Nasser served 10 years of his career with the family owned Target Engineering Construction, executing on Oil & Gas related projects values in excess of one billion US Dollars. These projects ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed participants at the Ministerial Roundtable Discussion for Support to Ukraine on 21 April via video link from Ukraine. He spoke about the enormous ...