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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 World Bank has sounded the alarm in its newly released country policy and institutional assessment (CPIA) report 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).

India has emerged as the fourth most equal country in the world, according to a new World Bank report that highlights a ...

Presenting the latest data and policy recommendations, UN and international experts have called on governments and stakeholders to urgently prioritize action for universal access to electricity and ...

The Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) continues to prevent villagers from farming or herding cattle in an area marked for expansion of a national park, the U.S.-based Oakland Institute said ...

It’s noisy, disparate and enlargjng. This group may lack geopolitical cohesion, but it can still serve a purpose that its ...

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