Investors in Jamaica’s catastrophe bond now face a 100% payout after Hurricane Melissa set off a full trigger event, ...

State Bank of India (SBI) has got the “World’s Best Consumer Bank 2025” and “Best Bank in India 2025” recognition from Global Finance, New York, at the Global Finance Award Ceremony held during the ...

Qatar, represented by the Ministry of Finance, has signed an agreement with the World Bank Group to establish an office that will serve Qatar and support the wider region. This initiative comes within ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Nineteen of the World Bank's 25 executive directors issued a joint statement this week affirming their support for the bank's continued work on climate change, defying ...

The World Bank has urged Thailand to "play a new game", breaking free from the middle-income trap to unlock new growth engines. Thailand must “dare to play a new game” if it wants to escape the middle ...

The Presidency has disputed the latest economic report by Nigeria’s biggest multilateral lender, the World Bank, which estimated that 139 million citizens were living in poverty, describing the figure ...

During the World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings that took place from October 9-15, we brought you live events focusing on what it takes to end poverty on a livable planet. Ajay ...

The East Asia and Pacific region continues to outpace much of the world in economic growth, but rising trade barriers, heightened global uncertainty and weaker global growth could slow that momentum, ...

THE WORLD BANK maintained its Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecasts for this year and 2026, amid heightened uncertainty and slowing global growth. In its latest East Asia and ...

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has revised the GDP growth rate projection downward for Pakistan by 0.5 per cent to 2.6 per cent for the current fiscal year 2025-26 against the earlier projection of 3.1 ...

The World Bank has asked Kenya to consider additional consumption taxes like excise duty and value added tax (VAT) to clear mounting supplier arrears in what could spark fresh social unrest if adopted ...