The World Bank is supporting Bangladesh with a range of urgent reforms to improve transparency and governance, including in tax policy and administration, public procurement, and statistics, its Vice ...

Britain's motor finance industry might be able to dodge what was expected to be one of the country's costliest consumer ...

Fitch has become the second top rating agency to warn that the prized triple-A credit scores of the World Bank and other top ...

Higher leasing rates are driving up jewellery production costs in the world's second-largest gold consumer and could squeeze margins of jewellers such as Titan, Kalyan Jewellers ...

Though gold declined in late 2024 after Donald Trump was re-elected to the White House, the precious metal has been on a tear since the beginning of 2025. The Reserve Bank of India last year was the ...

Palestinians say the fatal shooting of a pregnant 23-year-old in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank signals a worrying ...

President Donald Trump’s desire to get even on countries by matching tariffs they have on American goods could come at a steep cost.

Some big Wall Street firms are facing new complications that were not part of the plan when Donald Trump was elected in November.

With the benefit of hindsight today, the Washington Consensus was valuable in the sense that it was a consensus, it ...

But most African cities are failing to keep pace. Housing and services are inadequate. Public transport is haphazard and ...

The World Bank says setting up a business in Indonesia takes too long when compared to other countries, and the government ...

The move to shut down USAID is welcome because it recognizes the failure of foreign aid to promote development – and because it will force advocates of development to focus on the real causes of human ...