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More than 4, 000 Pakistanis helped shape the World Bank 5-year Country Partnership Strategy in Pakistan through country-wide consultations. These individuals come from a myriad different background...

A big congratulations to World Bank Pakistan for reaching 1 million likes on Facebook! To mark the occasion, here’s a fun video quiz inspired by a famous TV show to help you learn more about #Pakis...

December 3rd marks the world-wide day of disabilities...a day to celebrate those who are different and to work toward making sure they are included. In Pakistan, an innovative World Bank-supported ...

For the first time ever, more than one million households ravaged by the devastating floods of 2010 are being uplifted through a unique cash transfer approach in Pakistan, employing innovative use ...

The earthquake that hit Pakistan three years ago is arguably the biggest natural disaster in the countrys history. But the millions of people left homeless by the quake have, for the most part, mov...

The Punjab Education Sector Project (PESP) for Pakistan is supporting the Government of Punjab's education reforms, which since 2003 have aimed to improve access, quality, and governance in educati...

http://www.worldbank.org/ida/country/pakistan.html - Pakistan Secretary of Economic Affairs Muhammad Shehzad Arbab speaks in April 2013 about how IDA supports the country's development. IDA is the ...

The devastating floods that swept across Pakistan in July-August 2010 proved catastrophic for the people of Utror as in addition to other damages, the gushing waters swept away the small hydro powe...

Mohammad Zubair Khan, Former Commerce Minister, Pakistan

Mohammad Zubair Khan emphasized that Pakistan has become the biggest market for Afghan exports and highlighted to the existing volume of ...

http://www.worldbank.org/ida/country/pakistan.html - A delegate from Pakistan's Economic Affairs Ministry, Muhammad Asif, speaks about IDA's support of his country's infrastructure, energy and soci...

"I appreciate the fiscal constraints the donors are facing, yet at the same time if you rank the different instruments that are available for sourcing assistance then IDA would in my mind be at the...

World Bank Country Director for Pakistan, Rachid Benmessaoud talks about Bank's priorities for Pakistan during FY 2010-2013

The new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) reflects lessons learned f...

Filmed in August 2010.

Pakistan's deadly floods have affected more than 20 million people. The affected area covers 132,421 km, including 1.4 million acres of cropped land. The Bank has committe...

http://www.worldbank.org/pakistan - This short film tells the story of the evolution of a modern social safety net system in Pakistan through the silent transformation brought about in the lives of...

Filmed in August 2010. Pakistan's deadly floods have now affected over 14 million people. The Bank has committed $900 million in support of Pakistan's recovery. World Bank Pakistan Country Director...

Filmed in September 2010.

Pakistan's deadly floods have affected more than 20 million people. The affected area covers 132,421 km, including 1.4 million acres of cropped land. The Bank has com...

With 56.6 million landowners spread over a vast area of 200,000 sq. kilometers, the need for accurate and reliable land management is tremendous in Punjab, Pakistan. The old manual land record keep...

World Bank disaster expert Christoph Pusch says Haiti may be able to learn from the earthquake-recovery efforts in Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake. Those efforts included livelihood support in the...

Malala Yousafzai visits the World Bank in DC and speaks about the importance of education for girls, in Pakistan and everywhere. President Jim Yong Kim shares the stage with the 16-year-old, who an...

In an attempt to prevent corruption, the Ministry of State for Local Issues and Anti-Corruption in Albania, supported by the World Bank, launched an SMS campaign for citizens in March, 2015. In jus...

Filmed in August 2010.

Pakistan's deadly floods have affected more than 20 million people. The affected area covers 132,421 km, including 1.4 million acres of cropped land. The Bank has committ...

http://www.casa-1000.org - A new electricity transmission system, to connect the countries of Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Afghanistan and Pakistan, called CASA-1000, would help make the most effic...

We asked some of Fiji’s future leaders about their ideas for what’s really possible in their country. This is part of a new World Bank report series, Pacific Possible, focusing on the challenges an...

With over 600 million people living along the fault-line across the Himalayan belt, South Asia’s earthquake exposure is very high. Over a one-year period from May 2013 to May 2014, there were a tot...

Aqeela Asifi is a brave champion of education for Afghan girls who are living as refugees in Pakistan. After fleeing Kabul with her family in 1992, she began teaching a handful of girls in a makesh...

Filmed in November 2010.

Pakistan's deadly floods have affected more than 20 million people. The affected area covers 132,421 km, including 1.4 million acres of cropped land. The Bank has committ...

All around the world, moving freight by rail is far quicker, cheaper and greener than sending it by road. Not so much in India where rail freight is slow and unpredictable. Now, new world-class fre...