In 2015, the World Bank projected that the number of people living in extreme poverty was likely to fall to under 10 percent of the global population, putting within grasp the World Bank’s goals to ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines should move to manage its debts in an orderly and timely manner, especially as developing economies are facing increased risks from financial fragility due to the ...

Welcome to the Fragility Forum 2016. This year, over 100 partners and 600 participants will gather over three days to focus on one of the toughest challenges of our time – to push forward the ...

The Fragility Forum 2020 Seminar Series is a virtual and interactive series of events organized by the World Bank to share practical solutions and explore innovative ways of responding to the most ...

Bank runs, bailouts, disputes over whether bondholders should be burned, it all seems so 2008. Everything seems strong and stable, until suddenly a seemingly new problem brings a bank or two crashing ...

The African Development Bank’s (http://www.AfDB.org) Transition States Coordination Office organized a training workshop in Yaoundé to strengthen the capacity of ...

The World Bank Group has focused on scaling up its engagement in situations of fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV). The disturbing trend of rising and compounding crises points to an urgent need ...