The World Bank has blamed weak institutional capacity at the sub-national level for the failure of Nigeria’s $700m Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme.The ...

The crowd was going wild for everything and chanted "This is awesome" more than once. We eventually ended up with three ...

The scrolls were first noticed by Bedouin shepherds in the Judean Desert, which is near the Dead Sea, in 1947. Since then, ...

Straw shows what happens when life keeps throwing punches and no one steps in to help. Tyler Perry tells the story of a single mother named Janiyah who wakes up thinking it will be another rough day ...

Fireworks lit up the night sky over Beirut's famous St. Georges Hotel as hit songs from the 1960s and 70s filled the air in a courtyard overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church’s central government through ...

World Bank Group President Ajay Banga has commended African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina for his "transformative leadership" as he concludes his decade-long tenure at the end ...

Andreas Adriano profiles Agustín Carstens, finance minister, head of the BIS, and central banker with a start-up mentality ...

JPMorgan hired Sarah Kapnick as the bank’s chief climate scientist. She’s now advising clients on how climate change will ...

Worldwide account ownership has reached 76 percent of the global population—and 71 percent of people in developing countries. The gender gap in account ownership across developing economies has fallen ...

However, the landscape has changed as governments around the world reorder policy priorities and uncertainties have climbed to new highs. Forecasts for global growth have been revised markedly down ...