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The World Bank In Sweden

Sweden supports international efforts to promote human and economic development, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity around the world.

World Bank Group President David Malpass

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

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020

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

WORLD BANK GROUP PRESIDENT UPDATE

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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

Sweden At-A-Glance

Sweden became a member of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development — the World Bank — on Aug. 31, 1951. Today, Sweden is a member of the five institutions that form the World Bank Group. Sweden and the World Bank work with other member governments to finance projects, design policies, and deliver programs to end poverty in the developing world.

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Forcibly Displaced

This report, produced in close partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), attempts to sort fact from fiction to better understand the scope of the challenge and encourage new thinking from a socioeconomic perspective.

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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

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Working papers & Documents: Sweden

World Bank Group in Action

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.