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No country provides equal opportunity for women: World Bank report
March 6, 2024

No country provides equal opportunity for women: World Bank report

  On the eve of the International Women’s Day 2024 (Friday, 8 Mar 2024), the World Bank in a new...
Poorest nations to cut $220b public spending amid crushing debt:Oxfam
October 10, 2023

Poorest nations to cut $220b public spending amid crushing debt:Oxfam

More than half (57 percent) of the world’s poorest countries, home to 2.4 billion people, are having to cut public...
Vested interests control Pak policies amid socio-economic crisis: WB
September 24, 2023

Vested interests control Pak policies amid socio-economic crisis: WB

ISLAMABAD, September 24 (ANI): Ahead of the general elections in Pakistan, the World Bank has given a candid warning for...
Opinion: A united South Asia can beat air pollution
March 8, 2023

Opinion: A united South Asia can beat air pollution

    A new World Bank study finds that collaboration across borders could slash the cost of tackling air pollution,...
AIIB and World Bank Group financially exposed to Myanmar military business
June 21, 2021

AIIB and World Bank Group financially exposed to Myanmar military business

June 21, 2021: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is indirectly financing a telecommunications infrastructure company in business with the...
2 million babies stillborn worldwide: joint UN estimates
October 8, 2020

2 million babies stillborn worldwide: joint UN estimates

Aruna Patel (28) giving KMC to the new born child. Mothers of newborns are trained and educated on the benefits...
What could be wrong with a fiscal deficit?
July 29, 2020

What could be wrong with a fiscal deficit?

If wealth inequality is to be prevented from becoming worse than the horrendous level it has already attained, then the...
Viewpoint: Decline in global poverty is a farce perpetuated by World Bank’s Poverty Line
July 19, 2020

Viewpoint: Decline in global poverty is a farce perpetuated by World Bank’s Poverty Line

The real problem with the World Bank’s poverty estimates is that its International Poverty Line is set at an impossibly...