Mr. Saroj Kumar Jha is the Global Director for the World Bank Group’s Water Department. In his current assignment, Mr. Jha leads the Department senior management team, which drives the policy ...

Bolormaa Amgaabazar is currently the Country Director for the World Bank in Pakistan. Previously, she was the Operations Manager for the World Bank in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Ms. Amgaabazar oversaw ...

The Foundational Learning Compact (FLC) is a World Bank multi-donor umbrella trust fund supporting early childhood, primary, and secondary education. It focuses on foundational learning—basic literacy ...

In order to maintain the ability to recruit and retain qualified staff, the Bank Group reviews the salary structure annually and, when necessary, adjusts the salary structure based upon measurement of ...

Halsey Rogers is Lead Economist with the World Bank’s Education Global Practice and served as Co-Director of the World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise. He now helps ...

Explore how the World Bank Group is helping countries turn mineral wealth into jobs, industries, infrastructure, and lasting ...

Ms. Maria Dimitriadou is the World Bank Special Representative to the UN and Head of Multilateral Affairs as of 1 August 2025. Previously, she served as World Bank Special Representative to the UN and ...

The episode explores how AI is beginning to reshape the agriculture and food sector – from diagnosing crop diseases with a smartphone photo to powering localized weather forecasts and enabling more ...

Harish leads a global team working on financial inclusion; payments and market infrastructures; digital finance; and credit infrastructure topics. He represents the World Bank in several international ...

The World Bank Group is transforming its role as a Knowledge Bank to help countries meet new challenges in development. By strengthening its knowledge architecture, harnessing the power of knowledge ...

On September 15, 2026, the Executive Board of the World Bank approved the proposed reforms to the joint IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries. On September 15, 2026, ...

Job creation is central to the World Bank Group’s vision of creating a world free of poverty on a livable planet. The sustainable management of forests—which cover more than 30% of the earth’s surface ...