BRICS finance chiefs and central bank governors on Friday reiterated calls for urgent reform of the International Monetary ...

Visa (V) has partnered with the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group focused on the private ...

Visa (V) and the International Finance Corporation, or IFC, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, are partnering on a risk-sharing initiative to expand digital financial ...

This week, world leaders and central bankers will convene in Washington, D.C., for the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Both the chaos coursing through the ...

Thailand needs to more than double the pace of per-capita economic growth to achieve its goal of high-income status by 2037, ...

The World Bank said the Israel-Hezbollah conflict has severely disrupted Lebanon's fragile recovery, predicting a 6.4% contraction in the economy.

Kenya is expected to receive about $400 million in emergency financing ‌from the World Bank within six weeks to help address ...

Kenya is set to receive $400m in World Bank emergency financing for Ebola, El Niño and rising energy prices, using existing ...

Impoverished countries do not have much in common. Half the population of Niger, a landlocked African nation beset by military coups, live in extreme poverty, eight in ten people have no access to ...

Closing gender gaps in transport is key to equality and economic growth. Women face unique mobility barriers and underrepresentation in the sector. Addressing these challenges improves access to jobs, ...

The International Monetary Fund–World Bank Group Annual Meetings bring together leaders from government, business, civil society, and international organizations to discuss the global economy and ...

In 2021, the World Bank shut down one of its flagship projects: the Doing Business index, a global ranking system that measured how easy it was to start and run a business in 190 countries. It ...