Despite the continent’s vast natural resources, many African countries remain among the poorest in the world. According to ...

Updated data needed to see, keep responding to poorest places, head of Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative says ...

One out of three of the 75 countries eligible for IDA aid “is poorer than it was on the eve of the pandemic”, according to a World Bank paper on “The Great Reversal: Prospects, Risks, and Policies in ...

GDP per capita adjusted for relative purchasing power gives us an idea, albeit an imperfect one. Would you rather be rich in a poor country or poor in a rich one? Measuring the wealth of nations is ...

My analysis suggests the combined impact of the current and planned measures may entail a “ green squeeze ”, costing ...

Whether clearing trash washing up on beaches or replacing plastic products with eco-friendly alternatives, developing ...

Headlines focused on the US, Japan, and several European countries collectively contributing an additional $11 billion to the World Bank’s lending capacity, and how that fell far short of the ...

While gross domestic product (GDP) measures the value of all goods and services produced in a nation, dividing this output by the number of full-time residents is a better way of determining how rich ...

Taking on industrialist John D. Rockefeller and breaking up his Standard Oil helped shape U.S. anti-monopoly law more than a ...

The Samajwadi Party is a "samapt" (finished) party and the Congress will be "wiped out" like Dinosaurs from the country, said ...