Despite some positive surprises, Sub-Saharan Africa faces less vigorous growth forecasts, with necessary reforms in a global environment marked by shifting priorities among world leaders: Amadou ...

The IMF now expect Botswana’s economy to contract by about 0.4% this year, while the World Bank now projects 0.6% growth.

Ethiopia’s High-Level Delegation, led by the Finance Minister Ahmed Shide, meets with the World Bank Group’s Managing ...

Insights on growth, innovation, and impact from the Global Inclusive Growth Summit, which was held alongside the 2025 World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C.

The US State Department, in a wide-ranging political re-structuring of its policies, will eliminate 132 domestic offices, lay-off about 700 federal workers and reduce diplomatic missions overseas.The ...

African leaders are advocating for a new approach to measuring the continent's green wealth, emphasizing that current gross domestic product measures in most African countries are outdated and ...

The Tripoli based Libyan government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Bank in Washington, D.C., with the ...

Andrew Mamedu, the Country Director of AAN, criticised systemic failures in governance, stating, “Governance remains ...

WFP is slashing up to 6,000 jobs; the World Bank Spring Meetings soft-pedaled on climate; and people are aging better but ...

In March, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright buoyed African hopes at the Powering Africa Summit with his “all-of-the-above” ...

The U.S. is Singapore's second-largest export market, accounting for 11% of the Southeast Asian country's outbound shipments last year. About 55% of the products exported to America are subject to the ...

Following downgrades to its growth outlooks for the U.S., U.K. and many Asian countries, the International Monetary Fund last ...