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For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2016 and 2018 the World Bank Group invested US$3.2 billion in education projects benefiting adolescent girls.

The World Bank Group has released a new report outlining how global agriculture and food production can be overhauled in order to cut carbon emissions and limit global warning to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. In this edition, we speak to Julian Lampietti, Global Agriculture Practice Manager at the World Bank,…

At its launch almost a decade ago, the BRICS nations’ New Development Bank (NDB) was celebrated as a chance for countries across the Global South to break free of the US-dominated IMF and World Bank and rewrite the rules of financing global development. But while the number of nations signed…

US-based lender says controversial anti-gay law contradicts its values.

International Finance Corp (IFC), a unit of the World Bank Group, is providing a US$105-million loan to Thai Credit Retail Bank Plc (Thai Credit) to support female entrepreneurs in Thailand.

The Prime Minister will tell the London summit that Britain will stand with Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’.

From the ashes of World War II, three institutions were created as linchpins of a new global order

Exclusive: Leaked recording raises concerns over governance at development bank, at which David Malpass is now president

Watch live as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) release the Global Financial Stability Report on Tuesday, 11 April.It comes after the release of the World Economic Outlook at the 2023 Spring Meetings.