World Bank's investment arm to boost local-currency lending in Africa

The International Finance Corporation, the World Bank's private investment arm, is expanding its local-currency lending and ...

Shaping the Next Era of Global Growth: Nasdaq Leadership Insights from IMF–World Bank Week

Friedman underscored that many of the forces driving today’s markets — the AI revolution, shifts in labor productivity, and more — are also reshaping the global innovation economy, making it even more ...
Open Knowledge Repository - World Bank

October 2025 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure: What’s New

This note presents the 10th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of October 2025 ...

Bank Chatbots are 'Fast but Stupid' – That Could Soon Change

Your bank's virtual assistant is still pretty limited, but experts say it won't be long before it may start offering you ...
Open Knowledge Repository - World Bank

Commodity Markets Outlook, October 2025

The conflict in the Middle East—the latest of an extraordinary series of shocks in recent years—has heightened geopolitical ...
Business Recorder

Inflation may go up further: Real GDP growth now likely to stay at 3pc: World Bank

ISLAMABAD: Amid projections of a further hike in inflation, the World Bank stated that Pakistan’s real GDP growth, initially ...
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Opinion From Fire to Function: How African Innovators Are Turning AI Into the New Language of Global Development

By Chaste Inegbedion, Head of Happiness, ConcordeApp and Head of Failure & Social Experiments, Semaform Foundation ...