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The Bank's 2011 World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development reflected a consensus on how the international community could support peace-building in war-torn states. This consensus is now unravelling, following major state-building failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
Gender equality is a fundamental human right, a matter of fairness and justice. It is a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world and essential for development. It is also at the heart of the World Bank Group’s vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
A new report by the World Bank shows that fragility, conflict, and violence do not only affect the world’s poorest countries. It sets out the scale of conflict and violence in middle-income countries and lays out options to work more effectively in these situations
By Chair of our Academic Programme and former Economic Adviser at the World Bank, Dr. Sarath Rajapatirana, and our Senior Research Fellow, and former Director of CBSL, Dr. Roshan Perera The available foreign reserves of the country can be used to either repay foreign creditors or to finance imp
Repaying foreign debt or financing essential imports? The available foreign reserves of the country can be used to either repay foreign creditors or to finance imports of essential goods and services required by its citizens. This is the dilemma facing Sri Lanka today. Repaying the full value of the bond using the limited foreign reserves […]