The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

International financial experts have significantly downgraded economic projections for both America and the world, with the ...

The World Bank has noted that despite the expansion of Ghana’s economy, access to jobs remains a significant challenge for ...

Severe poverty is not a natural condition – and research indicates that the world has enough resources to eradicate it.

The World Bank has warned against the Bank of Ghana's interventions in the foreign exchange market, following the steady ...

The Government of Kenya has invited internet service providers to bid for a World Bank-funded project to supply broadband to rural government sites.

Trump has been remarkably consistent over the years about his core economic gripe: the trade deficit. In 1987, he spent ...

Indonesia's central bank cut interest rates in a surprise move on Wednesday, stepping up support for Southeast Asia's largest ...

Today, there is a growing din of voices that implicate the duo of the World Bank and the IMF in gross violation of human rights and genocide across Africa, including the Tigray region of Ethiopia, ...

As of January 2022, a total of 3,856 social protection and labor measures were planned or implemented by 223 economies. This constitutes a net increase of 523 measures, or 15.6 percent since the ...

New Zealand's central bank cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to a three-year low of 3.00% on Wednesday, and flagged ...

If such differences reflect distortions that women face in accessing good jobs, they can reduce economic activity through a misallocation of talent. This paper builds on Hsieh et al. (2019) to provide ...