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Spain has partnered with the World Bank to help poorer countries free up money to spend on development and conservation via ...

Global growth is projected to slow to 2.3 percent in 2025, nearly half a percentage point lower than the rate that had been ...

The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are ...

Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty ...

The goal of ending extreme poverty around the globe remains elusive partly due to compounding challenges faced by economies ...

According to a World Bank press release issued today (19 June), the initiatives include the Energy Sector Security Enhancement Project and the Bangladesh Clean Air Project, which collectively seek to ...

June 23, 2020, Video, "Carmen Reinhart, World Bank Vice President and Chief Economist, talks with Bloomberg’s Simon Kennedy at the Bloomberg Invest Global virtual summit about the near- and long-term ...

The World Bank on June 10 cut its forecast for global growth this year and warned that the 2020s are on track for the weakest performance for any decade since the first Apollo moon landing.

In the heart of the semi-arid Samburu Sub-County in Kwale County, a major infrastructure project is steadily rising. Located in Fulugani Village, the Mwache Dam, a Sh20 billion water project funded by ...

The African Development Bank Group's Capital Markets Development Trust Fund (CMDTF) has achieved strong results in its first five years, training 763 capital markets professionals —37 percent of them ...