Since its founding in 1960, the International Development Association distributed more than $287b in funding to support ...

Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4 per cent to 2.8 per cent, and urban from 10.7 per cent to 1.1 per cent, narrowing the ...

This figure dropped from 16.2 per cent in 2011-12 to just 2.3 per cent in 2022-23, marking a major achievement in the country’s ongoing efforts to improve living standards ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major step by the aging leader to designate a ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy and likely successor on Saturday.

Developing countries should strike swift trade deals with the United States at the 'earliest possible' opportunity, the president of the World Bank told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday (Saturday ...

European Central Bank policymakers are becoming increasingly confident about cutting interest rates in June as inflation ...

Banga spoke during the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's Spring Meetings, which this year took place amid ...

Canadians will vote for a new government in an election that has been upended by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and ...

Amid fears of an India-Pakistan war following the Pahalgam terror attack, a World Bank report has warned that over 10 million ...

Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is forecast to moderate to 5.8% in 2025 due to increased trade policy ...

Many of South Africa’s largest banks are closing ATMs across the country as people move away from cash and adopt digital ...