The World Bank in Mauritania

The World Bank is supporting the government improve living standards through the following areas: mining and energy, rural development, urban development and more.

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Economic transformation

Private sector development to diversify the economy and promote strong and inclusive growth.
COVID-19 Vaccine

Mauritania: 40% vaccination coverage

Mauritania has been one of the leading countries in Africa in championing COVID-19 vaccination.
Event

Tackling Education Challenges in the Sahel

The Republic of Mauritania and the G5 Sahel leaders convened a Summit on Education in the Sahel on December 5, 2021 in Nouakchott.

Mauritania At-A-Glance

Mauritania is essentially a desert country, with vast expanses of pastoral land and only 0.5% of arable land. According to the National Statistics Office, Mauritania has a population of about 4 million (2018), and a population density of 3.9 inhabitants per square kilometer, making it the fourth least densely populated country in Africa. By 2020, the country will have more urban than rural inhabitants...

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Regional Sahel Pastoralism Support Project

Since 2015, the PRAPS has directly supported more than two million livestock herders in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.

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Nathan Belete

Country Director for Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Cristina Isabel Panasco Santos

Country Manager

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In Depth

Oct 04, 2022

Africa’s Pulse

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is set to decelerate from 4.1% in 2021 to 3.3% in 2022, as a result of a slowdown in global growth, rising inflation, adverse weather conditions, global financial conditions, and the ...
Oct 05, 2022

CPIA Africa

The overall 2021 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) score for the region’s 39 IDA-eligible countries remains unchanged at 3.1.
IDA in Africa

With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
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