World Bank

Resolving the three inter-related global issues of reducing poverty, protecting the environment and ensuring a secure food supply can best be achieved by helping the rural poor... more

The World Bank is calling for a worldwide phase out of leaded gasoline to reduce health problems... more

More than a quarter of the world's population lives in dangerous environments where unsafe air and contaminated water... more

The World Bank is in the process of developing a new system that measures the wealth of nations by integrating economic, social and environmental factors. This is a major addition to the international perspectives... more

Some 80 countries with 40 percent of the world's population are experiencing water shortages that threaten their agriculture, industry and health... more

International donors have launched a new initiative -- the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) -- to provide more than $200 million to support institutions providing "micro-loans" to the very poor... more

Some 50 percent of the world’s population will live in cities and towns for the first time in history within the next 10 years... more

Global population will increase during the next 35 years to around 8.5 billion people, with almost 90 percent of the increase occurring in developing countries... more

With an agreement on the implementation of the Declaration of Principles between the Palestinians and the Israelis at hand, it is important that the international community focus on the economic and social needs... more

Hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people have achieved substantial improvements in their living standards over the past 20 years... more

Every year, construction projects like dams, power stations and irrigation and transportation systems in developing nations lead to the involuntary resettlement of more than 10 million people... more