WASHINGTON: Food prices have dropped since peaking six months ago but remain near record levels, pushing the world’s poorest people toward “undernutrition” and obesity, the...
Washington: Four years after the onset of the global financial crisis, the world  economy remains fragile and growth in high-income countries is weak. Developing countries...
Washington: Developing countries, led by China, will remain the main engines of global economic growth in 2013 as Europe and the United States plod along,...
Karachi: There are a number of positive features in Pakistani economy, which if incorporated in the growth equation, can pull the country back from economic...
Washington: The World Bank warned that global temperatures could rise by four degrees this century without immediate action, with potentially devastating consequences for coastal cities...
Karachi: World Bank has decided to pay more attention to women entrepreneurs in Pakistan and to lend additional support at technical, academic and policy level....
Islamabad: The World Bank has approved a US$ 5 million grant for the Balochistan Disaster Management Project (BDMP), which will strengthen the capacity of Provincial...