Opinion
The WBG is providing a record financing to support the post COVID-19 recovery in the Sahel and to scale up successful initiatives.
The WBG is providing a record financing to support the post COVID-19 recovery in the Sahel and to scale up successful initiatives.
Each day, an estimated 137 women around the world are killed by a family member, and 52 of those killings take place in Africa.
Pastoralism provides numerous essential services and an income for 80 million people throughout West Africa.
The WBG’s project portfolio has 8 International Development Association (IDA)-funded operations, including five regional projects, and one guarantee—worth a total commitment of $370.3 million.
The latest economic analysis for the region predicts predicts economic activity will decline by 3.3 percent in 2020, confirming the region’s first recession in 25 years.
Africa’s poorest countries saw little to no progress on average in improving the quality of their policy and institutional frameworks in 2018.
With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
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