ALMATY — Strengthening productivity could accelerate economic growth and generate nearly two million new jobs across Europe ...

With 1.2 billion young people in emerging economies reaching working age over the next decade—and only about 420 million jobs expected to be generated—the urgency of finding scalable and sustainable ...

Few regions have matched East Asia and Pacific’s (EAP) economic dynamism—or its success in creating more and better jobs. Over the past twenty years, the region created a net total of 131 million new ...

Since 2019, the World Bank has reached more than 77 million people with jobs-related interventions. Aligned with the World Bank’s twin goals, and committed to fostering sustainable development, the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The World Bank said on Wednesday it has earmarked more than $1 billion to support job creation and private sector growth in Sri Lanka over three years. "The initiative aims to ...

The World Bank Group has linked entrenched market dominance and weak competition in sectors such as electricity, telecommunications and fertiliser distribution to stagnating investments and expansion ...

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to make the first concerted challenge to the U.S. grip ...

The World Bank has flagged Kenya’s “unfair” business practices, noting that restrictive competition discourages foreign investments and stifles economic growth and job creation. The Bank, in ...