The World Bank Group said that Nobel laureate Michael Kremer will serve as its new chief economist starting Oct. 1, heading research for the institution, according to a statement Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Wednesday named Nobel laureate and University ⁠of ⁠Chicago professor Michael Kremer as its next chief economist, succeeding ⁠Indermit Gill, who ...

The Legal Vice Presidency includes dedicated teams supporting the World Bank's lending, finance, policy, and advisory functions across six broad areas: The Operations team advises and supports the ...

This week, world leaders and central bankers will convene in Washington, D.C., for the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Both the chaos coursing through the ...

Impoverished countries do not have much in common. Half the population of Niger, a landlocked African nation beset by military coups, live in extreme poverty, eight in ten people have no access to ...

A four-member delegation will meet government officials from 3 to 7 October to discuss energy financing, supply security, ...

Mr. Hideki Matsunaga, a respected Japanese national, has been appointed as the World Bank Country Manager for Somalia, stationed in Nairobi. With a career that spans several decades, Mr. Matsunaga ...

Easier tax payments, tighter limits on unprogrammed appropriations, and better-targeted health, education, and social ...

By Emmanuel Elebeke New Horizons Nigeria has commenced training for the third cohort of beneficiaries of the Federal ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

Kenya could attract significant privateinvestment in avocado, mango, medical manufacturing, and coastal tourism over the next five years if policymakers quickly remove existingconstraints.This is the ...