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UN Watch is calling on the World Bank to fire senior economist Massimiliano Cali over social media posts that the ...
Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, said on Tuesday it expects to divest from more Israeli ...
The World Bank said on Friday it had approved a $650 million loan to support the Istanbul Resilience Project, an investment ...
Early 2025 saw food prices in Jordan on the rise. The trend has been straining household budgets and could be exacerbated by ...
The World Bank approved a total of $3.53bn (N5.4tn at the official exchange rate of N1,535/$) in health-related loans to ...
The World Bank has approved $300m in financing for up to 7.4 million Nigerians in internally displaced persons camps and ...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) proposes limiting the number of directors from a single family and their affiliates on bank boards from five to two, and cutting a director's continuous term from 12 years to ...
The 16th-century Mercator projection still in use distorts the sizes of continents. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...
The alleged abuse occurred in separate incidents in November 2023, February 2023, and as recently as July 2025.
The World Bank's International Finance Corporation on Friday approved a loan and investment worth up to $250 million in a polysilicon manufacturing project in Oman for solar power applications, over ...
The World Bank has approved $300 million in financing for Nigeria to strengthen resilience and expand access to essential services ...
The World Bank is considering securitizing some of the projects it’s backing to attract more private funding as it prepares to roll out a series of debt-for-development swaps, President Ajay Banga ...