India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World ...

About 75.24 million people were living in extreme poverty in India during 2022-23, a massive drop from 344.47 million in 2011 ...

Governor Tiff Macklem of the Bank of Canada was interviewed after the central bank held its overnight lending rate at 2.75 ...

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

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

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

Let down by a world that claims to be humane but does nothing’: Palestinians speak out as Israeli bulldozers raze West Bank ...

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 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 ...

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 ...