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The World Bank issued its first euro bond of its new fiscal year on Thursday, and the €3bn 10 year attracted the borrower's ...
More adults than ever in low- and middle-income countries now have bank or other financial accounts, leading to a rise in formal saving, according to the World Bank Group’s Global Findex 2025 report.
The World Bank Group has reported a significant rise in formal saving across developing nations, with 40 per cent of adults now using bank accounts or other financial services to save.This milestone, ...
A DECADE after the government rolled out a National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI), more than four million adult Filipinos do not have any bank, mobile, or digital financial accounts, latest ...
Q2 saw a greater role for Fixed Income, Alternatives, International and Emerging Markets. There were more diversification ...
The World Bank has released a comprehensive report, “Trends and Opportunities to Advance Gender Equality in Botswana”, analyzing gender dynamics across life-cycle stages to guide policymakers, the ...
Morocco’s Gross National Income per capita reached $3,760 in 2024, keeping the country in the lower-middle-income category, ...
Despite promising to help alleviate poverty, World Bank investments in private hospitals in east Africa have resulted in catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for many. Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy for ...
The report was jointly funded by the World Bank-managed Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
THE World Bank has sounded the alarm in its newly released country policy and institutional assessment (CPIA) report for Sub-Saharan Africa, warning that stagnant policy progress is failing to ...
In the World Bank's report which contains data of 167 countries, India falls into the "moderately low" inequality category, ...
India has emerged as the fourth most equal country in the world, according to a new World Bank report that highlights a ...