On October 24, 2024, 33 countries joined the Annual Meetings Human Capital Ministerial Conclave to discuss how to equip young women and men with the skills to build resilience and thrive in a fast-changing...
These brief highlights the key outcomes and lessons learned from the assistance that the World Bank provided to the Romanian Government to strengthen its capacity to manage the implementation of the National...
Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Projected increase in temperatures can lead to more intense and unpredictable rainfalls during the monsoon season, there is higher probability...
Despite Bangladesh’s success in reducing poverty, a significant number of people still live below and around the poverty line. The Government of Bangladesh currently implements several cash transfer programs...
The First Green and Climate Resilient Development (GCRD) Credit is a significant step by Bangladesh to embrace a future that is both clean, efficient, and prepared for the challenges of climate change...
Bangladesh is among most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is highly exposed to a variety of hazards such as floods, cyclones, and earthquakes. The Government of Bangladesh has instituted disaster...
Education develops children’s latent capabilities, contributes to a skilled workforce and acts as a powerful tool for reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity and boosting economic growth. Education...
The Livestock and Dairy Development Project (LDDP) aims to improve productivity, market access, and resilience of smallholder farmers and agro-entrepreneurs in the livestock and dairy sector. It focuses...
Bangladesh achieved its Millennium Development Goals targets of halving the population without access to improved drinking water sources three years ahead of time and showed impressive progress in sanitation...
As Bangladesh’s plain terrain is crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers and canals, bridges play a critical part in the country’s road transport system. For every 4.5 km of roads in unions or upazilas, a bridge...
As Bangladesh aspires to move up the value chain and become an upper middle-income country, there have to be significant gains in quality and relevance of skills imparted by the secondary education system...
Bangladesh is well placed to play an important role in regional trade and logistics networks, and as a transit country in South Asia. There are corridors and associated border crossing points that connect...
Bangladesh is known for its pioneering approaches that support Micro Enterprises (MEs) to alleviate poverty. Microenterprises contribute up to 25 percent of GDP and provide 56 percent of jobs in the country...
The Bangladesh economy has undergone important structural shifts, and the industrial sector has become a large contributor to growth and employment. The Export Competitiveness for Jobs (EC4J) project directly...
In the last decade, Bangladesh achieved a more than fourfold increase in electricity generation capacity and delivered electricity connections to more than 99 percent of its population. The Bangladesh...
Conscious of both its increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels, the Government of Bangladesh committed to achieving an ambitious climate change agenda. The government revised its Nationally Determined...
Bangladesh has made great strides in developing an extensive road transport system. Yet, poor quality of construction and maintenance of the primary, secondary and tertiary road network is common, resulting...
In recent years, the manufacturing - particularly the readymade garments (RMG) sector - has been a major driver of the economic growth. It employs more than four million workers, most of whom are women...
As per World Bank estimates, air pollution and lead exposure are responsible for more than one-fifth of the premature deaths in Bangladesh (2019). Strong environmental regulations, strict environmental...
Bangladesh has shown great generosity by providing shelter to around 1.1 million Displaced Rohingya People (DRP) in Cox’s Bazar district. This has placed immense strain on existing infrastructure and social...