David Malpass to step down as World Bank President

Malpass will leave his position on June 30, the end of the World Bank's fiscal year, after serving more than four...

World Bank to provide USD 1.78 billion to earthquake-hit Turkey

The World Bank in a statement said that it has started a rapid damage assessment to estimate the magnitude of the...

India's 2023-24 GDP growth in real terms projected at 6.5 pc

The Economic Survey document said the growth projection is broadly comparable to the estimates provided by...

Mission 2047: India's march to become third largest economy

The World Bank's revision of Indian GDP growth projections from 6.4 per cent to 6.9 per cent in the current fiscal...

WB's USD 100 million funding to flood-proof Karachi barely used

Less than three per cent of the World Bank's budget, which it gave as loans to the local Sindh government, has been...

LOOM SOLAR raises USD 2 Million Funding from SIMA Funds, USA

New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI/PNN): Emerging SolarTech start-up Loom Solar has raised USD 2 Million funding...

Pakistan is South Asia's weakest economy: World bank report

Unsurprisingly, warning of another global recession, the World Bank on January 13, 2023 forecasted Pakistan's...

Brain drain in Middle East countries entails ignorance

According to several studies carried out by UNESCO, the Arab League and the World Bank, the Middle East and the...

World Bank cuts global growth estimate for 2023

According to the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report, global growth is slowing sharply in the face...

Djibouti struggles to repay Chinese loan, suspends debt repayment

The World Bank has in its latest report on Djibouti, stated that in 2022, Djibouti's debt servicing costs tripled to...

More women walk to work compared to men in India: Report

According to the World Bank's report -- a toolkit on 'Enabling Gender Responsive Urban Mobility and Public Spaces in...

WB's toolkit aims to make transport, public spaces more inclusive

Public transport services are not traditionally designed keeping in mind women's safety and their specific travel...