Mr John Mativo, managing director of the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company, said discussions with the World Bank are ...

The project was supposed to be a boon for wildlife-based tourism in the East African country, but critics say it came “at an ...

A coalition of leading African civil society groups called on the World Bank to exit its investments in for-profit hospitals, ...

In contrast, Ms Meloni is the leader of a nationalist party with protectionist instincts. ■ For more expert analysis of the ...

Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — the cost-slashing body known as ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

No, 'Detty December' remittances in Nigeria did not equal 4% of the country's GDP, as claimed by former governor The former governor based the claim on a Wikipedia entry, which quoted a 2021 news ...

The World Bank has detected a flaw in the recently launched Uraan Pakistan plan, pointing out that the national economic vision lacks the basic ingredient required to fix Pakistan's ailing economy ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2025—Developing economies—which fuel 60 percent of global growth—are projected to finish the first quarter of the 21st century with the weakest long-term growth outlook since 2000 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The World Bank building in Washington, Monday, April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) Updated [hour ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday warned that U.S. across-the-board tariffs of 10% could reduce already lackluster global economic growth of 2.7% in 2025 by 0.3 percentage ...

Foreign direct investment is flowing into the developing world at half the level of the early 2000s, the bank said. Globally, countries imposed five times as many new trade barriers last year as ...