The World Bank said it is committing $1 billion to help the Democratic Republic of Congo prepare for the development of the ...

The World Bank’s latest global poverty update reveals a dramatic decline in extreme poverty across India between 2011-12 and ...

THE Philippine government’s growth targets may remain elusive even after the President steps down from office, according to ...

The World Bank said on Thursday it would resume funding to Uganda, nearly two years after the global lender suspended new ...

According to the World Bank’s recent report, around 54.7 million people in India were living on less than USD 3 per day in ...

The World Bank is lifting a freeze on lending to Uganda it put in place in response to a 2023 law criminalising homosexuality ...

The World Bank has cut Kenya's growth forecast for this year by half a point from its initial prediction to 4.5%, it said on ...

As per the figures, extreme poverty dropped to 5.3 per cent in 2022–23, down from 27.1 per cent in 2011–12, translating to a ...

The World Bank has also updated the extreme poverty line from $2.15 to $3 per person per day. Because of the revision in the ...

However, the financial institution says these updates do not impact how the international poverty line measures the ...