The job of leading that reform now falls to Ajay Banga, an Indian American businessman and former CEO of Mastercard who was nominated by President Joe Biden to replace resigning World Bank President ...

Notably, gender and income-based financial access gaps, which initially narrowed between 2014 and 2017, have widened again by ...

The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as ...

A new survey that probes the level of trust Democrats and Republicans have for news sources finds the business-oriented ...

Explore how rising bond yields and quantitative easing lead to significant losses for major central banks, threatening their ...

From one U.N. climate summit to the next, the struggle has intensified to secure sufficient financing from wealthy, ...

Citing trade wars, World Bank sharply downgrades global economic growth forecast for this year.

His storied career at the IMF, at central banks, and at universities shaped the study of macroeconomics and the next ...

The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) and the World Bank (WB) have launched a pilot project aimed at decarbonizing and ...

In May, the MPA/ID program celebrated its 25-year anniversary with a reunion on the Harvard Kennedy School campus of over 350 ...

Mongabay reached out to the World Bank but it did not reply. Michel Pimbert, of Coventry University in the U.K., cited in the OI study, wrote to Mongabay that the World Bank initiatives “will push ...

A World Bank study reveals Pakistan's General Sales Tax exacerbates poverty by disproportionately burdening low-income families. Education spending, particularly at primary levels, also ...