India's extreme poverty drops to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12, lifting 269 million people out of poverty, says World ...

Two years after halting funding, the World Bank is lifting its loan freeze on Uganda, imposed after the country passed a 2023 ...

However, the financial institution says these updates do not impact how the international poverty line measures the ...

The World Bank has called for more collaborative and impact-focused partnerships to effectively address development challenges across Africa. The call ...

Listen to the second part of The 15% solution – two episodes from The Conversation Weekly podcast exploring plans to reform ...

The bank halted funding to the East African country in August 2023 after Uganda's parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality ...

China accounted for about 5 percent, or $441.8 billion, of the $8.8 trillion in public external debt owed by all low- and middle-income countries, according to data from the World Bank's 2024 report ...

The Ukrainian delegation in Washington has reached agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and ...

Recent improvements in survey methodologies have increased measured consumption in many low- and lower-middle-income ...

The World Bank has revised its global poverty assessment criteria, resulting in a significant increase in Pakistan's reported poverty rate-from 39.8% to 44.7%.Under the updated framework, individuals ...

Kenya risks losing access to a Sh96.9 billion loan from the World Bank after President William Ruto declined to assent to a ...

China’s frenzied development drive across Tibet — marked by dam construction, mining, and road building — is pushing one of ...