Ceyla Pazarbasioglu is Director of the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) of the IMF. In this capacity, she leads the work on the IMF’s strategic direction and the design, implementation, ...

The Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) is a landmark collaboration between the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, designed to deepen the two institutions’ collaboration on cofinanced public ...

Mr. Gigaba is the current Minister of Finance in the Republic of South Africa as appointed on 31 March 2017. He was previously the Minister of Home Affairs, a portfolio he served in from 26 May 2014.

Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

His Majesty King Letsie III is the first son of the late King Moshoeshoe II and Queen ’M‘amohato Seeiso. He was born Prince Mohato Bereng Seeiso at Scott Hospital in Morija on 17 th July, 1963 and was ...

Valdis Dombrovskis is the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets ...

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu opens the 2026 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) with a keynote address on the urgent need for good jobs across ...

The World Bank Group Fragility Forum 2026 brought together global leaders to align on priorities in an increasingly complex fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) landscape. Discussions focused on ...

As 1.2 billion young people are projected to enter the workforce in developing countries over the coming decades, this discussion explored a central economic question: how to create enough productive ...