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, ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Tuesday the International Monetary Fund had a key role to ...

If many countries choose to recognize Palestine but fail to confront the reality of escalating Israeli domination of the ...

The UN’s special rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank said it's time for nations around the world to take concrete actions ...

The United Nations’ special rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank has called for global action to stop what she describes as ...

In the face of chaos, the global economy powers on. Since 2011 growth has continued at around 3% a year. During the worst of ...

Village savings and loans groups or village banks have emerged as the primary source of borrowing for a majority of people to ...

A new poverty mapping report, a collaboration between the National Statistics Bureau and the World Bank, offers an ...

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's annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Report has been a guide for countries, ...

A growing number of wealthy Americans are seeking residency or citizenship in other countries to shore up their assets from ...

For years, blended finance —utilizing public development funds to attract private investment in developing countries —has been touted as a powerful means to bridge the financing gap for achieving the ...