The IFC, known as the world’s largest development institution focused on private sector growth in emerging markets, has ...

The World Bank has called on Malawi to urgently transition from a government-led to a private sector–driven growth model, ...

After the world’s largely disastrous response to the coronavirus, countries tasked the WHO with overseeing a pandemic treaty ...

One in six people 60 years and older has experienced abuse in a community setting, the World Health Organization says.

After that rainy night on March 13, 2013, the Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio brought a breath of fresh air into a 2,000 ...

Wall Street is pointing higher a day after skepticism about the strength and safety of U.S. investments due to President ...

Washington, April 18, 2025—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today ... which provided vital financial relief and recovery support during and after the COVID-19 crisis. We look ...

The World Bank’s Response to COVID-19 in Zambia Zambia’s location in Southern Africa—it is surrounded by eight countries—increases the risk of imported diseases from neighboring countries and beyond.

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter's Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the Modi government’s primary focus is to transform India into a developed nation by 2047, with a strong focus on sunrise sectors to drive this ...