A few months after the State government announced the implementation of Chennai City Partnership in the budget session, the World Bank (WB) has approved a loan of USD 150 million – Rs 1,124.6 crore as...

Black rice is well suited for Assam soils and weather conditions, carrying a huge opportunity for its commercial production. The World Bank-funded Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation project...

India received $87 billion in remittances in 2021, and the US was the biggest source, accounting for over 20 pc of these funds, the World Bank said in its latest report on Wednesday.

The World Bank would implement healthcare projects worth Rs 2,757 crore in five years in Tamil Nadu in collaboration with the World Health Organisation. The project interim review meeting was held on...

Post its underwhelming response to the pandemic and the damaging Doing Business scandal, the World Bank should focus on getting money to poor countries. Here, it can provide them with concessional...

Institutions such as United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund need to be urgently reformed as they no longer speak for countries whose issues have remained unattended to for...

The Indian economy that was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic is now in recovery mode and the World Bank welcomes that, its president David Malpass said on Wednesday.

Pakistan is among the top 10 countries that possess the largest external debt stocks and became eligible for the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has embarked on a week-long US trip to attend the annual meet of the World Bank and IMF as well as G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting.

The World Bank has approved USD 60 million to improve the quality of Nepal’s higher education, scale up online learning, and expand access to academic institutions for underprivileged students.