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What Will It Take to End Poverty?

Extreme poverty remains a worldwide scourge we must fight to eradicate. We're starting a conversation and we want your ideas: What will it take to end poverty?
Global Health

In Burundi, Investing in Safer Births

A program that pays health facilities for the delivery of quality maternal and child health services has helped save lives and improve care.
Sustainable Development

Sustainable Energy for All

The World Bank will join the leadership of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, which aims to increase the poor’s access to electricity, clean household fuels, and renewable energy.
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East Asia & PAcific

Solar Power Lights Up Mongolia's Future

In the rural landscape of Mongolia, the daily lives of about 100,000 herder families have been transformed by the use of portable solar power systems.

Resources

Client Connection Parliamentarians Access to Information Financing and Risk Management

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World Bank Bonds

What's New

Release

Haiti Strategy Focuses on Reconstruction and Capacity Building for Stronger Institutions

Speech

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by President Jim Yong Kim for the 'Every Woman, Every Child' Event at the UN General Assembly

Release

IMF and World Bank Announce $2.1 Billion Debt Relief for Guinea

Release

World Bank Statement of September 25, 2012 on Padma Bridge

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Events & Consultations

Event

TEDxSendai 2012

October 10, 2012

Join global thinkers in Sendai, Japan, for a discussion on disaster recovery, resilience and hope.

Event

Sendai Dialogue

October 9-10, 2012

This conference will gather stakeholders to build a global consensus on the need to better prepare for disasters around the world.

Blogs

Compelling Ideas at the UN: Energy, Health, Education and #whatwillittake

"We arrived in New York ... after having just started a global conversation on this question: #whatwillittake to end poverty?"

— World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, September 27

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Results

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South Asia

India: Technology Boosts Agriculture

In seven arid districts, a project spurred a 25 percent increase in crop yields and reduced soil erosion.

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Topics

Africa

Building Better Connectivity

A program aims to help three countries capitalize on the power of communication technologies.

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Projects

China

Water Resource Management

Better water use and pollution controls in the Hai Basin have improved the environment.

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Have things changed for the better? This basic question is at the heart of profiles chronicling the impact of development around the world.
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Fiscal Year

Support Hits Nearly $53 Billion in 2012

The World Bank Group supported an estimated 884 operations to promote opportunity and get needed services to the poor.

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MDGs

Countries Look to 2015

The Work Bank and partners are working to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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Open Development

A More Open Bank

The Open Data Initiative is one of several programs enabling "citizen-centric" development.

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Open Access

Bank Research Easier to Access, Reuse

More than 2,000 books, articles, reports, and research papers are in the Open Knowledge Repository.

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Labor

Jobs in the World Economy

The jobs challenge is expected to become more acute as population grows, especially in developing countries.