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5/20/2025, 3:28:37 PM

As we kick off the *2025 World Bank Group Youth Summit* in Washington, D.C., last year’s winners of the Case Challenge — now known as the Innovation Lab — reflect on their experience and how their team explored the subtheme of digital inclusion. Their approach — built on simplicity, scalability, and collaboration — focused on: 🔹 *Awakening* digital potential through inclusive education and training 🔹 *Building* rural digital hubs to expand access in underserved areas 🔹 *Collaborating* across sectors to ensure sustainable impact Their solution reflected the realities faced by many countries, from gender gaps in mobile access to youth unemployment in the digital economy. Through practical, people-centered innovation, they demonstrated how young changemakers can drive progress at scale. Learn more about their insights and the path forward: https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/digital-development/from-case-challenge-to-innovation-lab--youth-led-solutions-for-b?cid=ECR_WA_worldbank_EN_EXT

World Bank

5/21/2025, 4:27:53 PM

*The World Bank Group Youth Summit's 12th edition*, brought together young people (ages 18-35) to tackle urgent global challenges. This year’s focus was on digital transformation, creative industries, and youth-led innovation for a livable planet. The *Summit’s mission* is to: 🔹 *Empower* youth to explore innovative solutions to development challenges 🔹 *Equip* youth with the tools to create and participate in impactful projects 🔹 *Foster* dialogue between youth, the World Bank Group, and other key global stakeholders. From May 19-20, key sessions included a civil society roundtable, plenaries on data-driven solutions and youth-led innovations in agriculture, a creative industries session, and a fireside chat on digital currencies. 🎥 *Watch the event replay*➡️ https://live.worldbank.org/en/event/2025/world-bank-group-youth-summit?cid=ECR_WA_worldbank_EN_EXT

World Bank

6/2/2025, 6:33:39 PM

Weekly Update: *Harnessing the Private Sector for Better Data.* As data become more essential than ever, it’s time to ask: What if the private sector became not only a user of data, but also an investor, builder, and partner? *Women Entrepreneurs Lead on Menstrual Health in Bangladesh:* Read how Bangladeshi women are turning stigma into opportunity—educating others, growing businesses, and improving public health. *Development Data on Jobs:* With a jobs crisis possibly looming in the years ahead, here's a look at data that highlights the critical need for job creation and some key sectors that hold great potential. *How Renewable Energy is Boosting Health Care Access:* Read how solar power and battery systems are transforming health care in five major hospitals across northern and southern Haiti. *Read and subscribe to our newsletter:* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/partnering-private-sector-data-the-world-bank-j29qe/?trackingId=hwjBriFkvCmH8OIBruthLg%3D%3D

World Bank

5/19/2025, 5:35:43 PM

Weekly Update: ➡️ *A Spotlight on Job Success Stories:* Find out what the World Bank Group is doing across the world to create more and better jobs, from boosting transit connectivity in Kazakhstan to expanding health services in Mozambique. ➡️ *World Bank Group Youth Summit:* Join us May 19-20 for our largest annual event for youth. This year's summit focuses on innovation in climate action, digital transformation, and the creative industries. ➡️ *A Decade of Impact — The African Centers of Excellence:* See how the African Centers of Excellence are training future leaders in health, agriculture, and tech to tackle Africa’s biggest challenges. ➡️ *The Commodity Markets Outlook in Eight Charts:* Commodity prices are set to fall in 2025 amid better supply, policy shifts, and slower global growth. Explore our forecast. *Read our newsletter:* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/closer-look-boosting-jobs-transform-lives-the-world-bank-6tw5e/?trackingId=%2FELEB%2Bw0R1CABYPvD7JC4w%3D%3D

World Bank

5/27/2025, 2:41:43 PM

*Weekly Update* ➡️ *Community Champions Shape a Future with Nature:* After the International Day for Biological Diversity, meet leaders from Ecuador to South Africa helping protect wildlife and nature—with support from the Global Wildlife Program. ➡️ *A New Approach to Debt-for-Development Swaps:* Amid rising liquidity pressures, countries are exploring innovative debt-for-development swaps. Read insights from Pablo Saavedra, Ousmane Diagana, Jorge Familiar, and Junaid Kamal Ahmad. ➡️ *Improving Transport Connectivity for Food Security in Africa:* In African countries food takes about four times longer in transit than in Europe, exacerbating rising food insecurity. A new World Bank report explores solutions. ➡️ *Tackling the Growing Global Waste Crisis:* By combining infrastructure financing with policy reform loans and results-based financing, the World Bank is helping to drive sustainable waste management solutions. *Read and subscribe to the newsletter:* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shaping-future-nature-wildlife-the-world-bank-vfbwf/?trackingId=bNzjJ3WkSSiKAHAS5DDJsw%3D%3D

World Bank

5/30/2025, 3:47:26 PM

📩 𝟭 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. Every Monday, our World Bank Weekly Update LinkedIn newsletter delivers the latest development news—plus data, digests, and videos—from across The World Bank It’s a quick, weekly read that brings global insights straight to your feed. If you haven’t subscribed yet, now’s the time to join a growing community of readers who want to stay informed and connected. 👉 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/world-bank-weekly-update-6955617228427825153/

World Bank

6/4/2025, 6:20:43 PM

*Nearly 600 million people in Africa live without electricity.* How do we change this? The World Bank Group, the African Development Bank Group, and their partners are working together to connect 300 million people in the region to electricity by 2030. ⚡*This is Mission 300:* https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/energizing-africa?cid=ECR_WA_worldbank_EN_EXT

World Bank

6/3/2025, 7:04:48 PM

Private capital is critical to bridging the development financing gap. The World Bank Group Guarantee Platform is scaling up tools that de-risk investment and unlock financing in Türkiye and beyond. *More in MIGA VP Ed Mountfield’s blog:* https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/guarantees-empower-the-private-sector-to-finance-development-in-turkiye?cid=ECR_WA_worldbank_EN_EXT

World Bank

5/28/2025, 3:04:09 PM

As digitization transforms our daily lives, it’s also reshaping the future of finance. A growing wave of innovation is using transactional data—like cash flow or purchase history—to assess creditworthiness, especially for small businesses that lack traditional assets. Sophie Sirtaine and Indermit Gill explore how digital data is becoming a powerful tool for financial inclusion, and what’s needed to ensure this transformation benefits everyone. https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/how-digitization-is-disrupting-collateral-based-lending?cid=ECR_WA_worldbank_EN_EXT

World Bank

5/22/2025, 3:27:36 PM

A recent debt-for-development swap in Cote d'Ivoire, enabled by the World Bank, is helping the country: ✅ reduce its debt service burden ✅ improve debt sustainability ✅ create savings that will be invested in the construction of schools Learn more from Pablo Saavedra, Ousmane Diagana, Jorge Familiar, and Junaid Kamal Ahmad. https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/a-new-approach-to-debt-for-development-swaps?cid=ECR_WA_worldbank_EN_EXT