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 ...

The 13th edition of the World Bank Group Youth Summit brought together young people (ages 18–35) from around the world to explore the most pressing issues shaping their future. Under the theme ...

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu opens the 2026 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) with a keynote address on the urgent need for good jobs across ...

The Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) is a landmark collaboration between the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, designed to deepen the two institutions’ collaboration on cofinanced public ...

Mrs. Arundhati Bhattacharya is the first woman Chairman of 209 year old SBI, a Fortune 500 company and the only Indian Banker featuring in the list of 100 most important active public intellectuals as ...

Adriano Afonso Maleiane is Mozambique’s Minister of Economy and Finance. Previously, he served as Governor of the Bank of Mozambique (1991-2006) where he oversaw the removal of the commercial banking ...

The World Bank Group’s Annual Meetings flagship event launched AgriConnect, a new initiative to transform small-scale farming into an engine of sustainable growth, jobs, and food security. President ...

Omowale David-Ashiru was appointed Andela’s Nigeria country director in September 2018. She is responsible for leading Andela Nigeria, a rapidly growing team of over 500 people, ensuring that the ...

With 1.2 billion young people in emerging economies reaching working age over the next decade—and rapid changes in technology reshaping workplaces—the urgency of finding scalable, sustainable ...

**The playlist above has all the video recordings from the public sessions held during the conference on March 5-6, 2024.** Watch three livestreamed sessions from the World Bank Group’s inaugural ...

Claire Jones is the Financial Times' international economy news editor. She has worked at the FT since 2011, covering economics and finance from Washington, London and Frankfurt, and holds a degree in ...

How can increasing women’s economic participation help create more and better jobs? Expanding women’s access to jobs, finance, and digital tools can increase labor force participation, support ...