
World finance leaders say growth still weak
While world finance leaders say the global economy has improved slightly this year, they said the outlook for the future was uneven with growth and ...

World finance leaders issue sober assessment
World finance leaders issued a somber assessment on Saturday of the global economy, saying the recovery remains uneven with growth and jobs in short ...
World Bank sets poverty goal
The World Bank has set a goal of eliminating extreme poverty around the world over the next 17 years. The World Bank's policy committee on Saturday ...

IMF chief says global pro-growth policies needed
The head of the International Monetary Fund says the United States, Europe, Japan and China all need to make adjustments to their current economic ...

BRICS plan development bank to fund infrastructure
Leaders of five of the world's emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure ...
World Bank: Israel limits harm Palestinian economy
The World Bank charges that Israel's system of checkpoints, delays in transferring millions of dollars in tax revenue and preventing most exports from ...

Afghans worry about international aid vacuum
Afghan street children are packed into classrooms, raising their hands to answer math questions and bending their heads over art projects as part of ...
Deal signed to clear Myanmar debt, allow new loans
The World Bank announced a long-awaited deal to allow Myanmar to clear part of its huge decades-old foreign debt, opening the door for new much-needed ...

World Bank: Arab World hit hard by climate change
The Middle East and North Africa will be especially hard hit by climate change in the coming decades, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday, ...