Join us live on September 16 for Nobel Laureate James A. Robinson’s lecture on how politics drives policy reform.

World Bank Group Senior Managing Director discusses multilateralism, technology, and the future of development aid in a fireside chat with the Washing ...

Societies across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are at a turning point. Some countries face youth bulges and pressure to create jobs, while others are grappling with rapidly aging populations ...

Fadia Saadah is the Regional Practice Director for People in Middle East and North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Region. Throughout a more than 30-year career at the World Bank, she has held ...

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 ...

Mr. Aminu Umar-Sadiq is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), with broad experiences in Public Finance Management, Mergers and ...

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 ...

Dr. Benjamin E. Diokno is the current Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). He finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines (1968), and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matia Kasaija is the current Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development for Uganda. Before his appointment, he served as the State Minister for Finance (Planning) in the Cabinet of Uganda ...

Yongmei Zhou is a co-Director of the World Development Report on Governance and the Law. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley before joining the World Bank ...