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A founding member of the World Bank, Belgium supports international efforts to fight poverty and promote human and sustainable economic development around the world.

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WORLD BANK GROUP PRESIDENT UPDATE

THE WORLD’S POOR NEED DEBT

World Bank Group President David Malpass urged greater transparency and debt relief for the world’s poorest countries.

World Bank Group President David Malpass. Photo: © World Bank

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020

Reversals of Fortune

Latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity.

COVID-19

Remittance Flows to Shrink 14%

International migration to fall in 2020 for the first time in recent decades.

Worker disinfect sprays at the public area of downtown, Kyauktada Township, Myanmar. Photo: Mar Naw

Belgium At-A-Glance

Belgium was among the 28 governments that founded the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development — the World Bank — on Dec. 31, 1945. Today, Belgium is a member of the five institutions that form the World Bank Group.

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Global Economic Prospects

COVID-19 has triggered the deepest global recession in decades. While the ultimate outcome is still uncertain, the pandemic will result in contractions across the vast majority of emerging market and developing economies. It will also do lasting damage to labor productivity and potential output.

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Research

Economic Prospects

Pandemic, Recession: The Global Economy in Crisis

Women, Business and the Law

40 Economies Make 62 Legal Reforms to Advance Women’s Economic Participation

Annual Report

Supporting Countries in Unprecedented Times

ALL THE LATEST REPORTS

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository: Your source for publications and research.

World Bank Group in Action

The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. Established in 1960, IDA aims to reduce poverty by providing loans (called “credits”) and grants for programs that boost economic growth, reduce inequalities, and improve people’s living conditions. Visit ida.worldbank.org

Pandemics, climate change, conflict. The world faces threats that can only be solved through cooperation and coordination across borders.

Since its founding, The World Bank Group has evolved to meet new challenges to ending extreme poverty and creating opportunity for all. Along with a vast network of worldwide partners, we continue to adapt with new innovative lending approaches, partnering with the private sector to expand funding for development, and responding to global threats that affect rich and poor alike.

“For we shall prosper individually, only as we prosper collectively” - Eugene Meyer. First World Bank President.