The Bangladesh government has signed a US$300 million financing agreement with the World Bank to strengthen food security by ensuring timely availability of fertilizers for smallholder farmers during key planting…
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Walking into the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings this year, I expected to hear about inflation, growth forecasts, and policy frameworks. What I did not expect was…
A projected 24% surge in global energy prices this year is set to anchor a broader, longer-lasting commodity shock, with inflationary pressures and slower growth likely to persist into 2027…
India’s Chief Economic Advisor Anantha Nageswaran emphasized the need for flexible and forward-looking policymaking as global economies navigate overlapping structural shifts, during a panel discussion at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings…
At the 2026 World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., India's Secretary of Finance for the Department of Economic Affairs, Anuradha Thakur, delivered keynote remarks at the "Smart, Connected, Customer-Centric:…
India’s economic growth is projected to moderate to 6.6 per cent in FY27, as rising energy prices linked to the Middle East conflict and ongoing supply chain disruptions weigh on…
Congressman Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10) has reintroduced the “No Funds for Forced Labor Act” (H.R. 7516), a bipartisan, bicameral measure aimed at preventing international financial institutions from “providing support to any…
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved financing to modernize India’s network of skills training institutes, aiming to better align training with “labor market needs” and expand job…
The toxic air in South Asia harms tens of millions of children daily, killing an estimated 130,000 children under-fives each year, the highest child death toll from air pollution in the world,…
When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a new economic assistance package for war-torn Ukraine during a brief meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a Halifax-area airport, it triggered a…
South Asia is moving closer to a structural debt crisis, not a cyclical squeeze, as fresh data from the World Bank’s International Debt Report 2024 shows the region’s external liabilities…
The Office of the Executive Director for India and the Embassy of India in Washington, DC, jointly hosted Diwali celebrations at the World Bank headquarters, in partnership with the State…
The world economy has shown remarkable resilience over the past six months despite trade disruptions, tightening financial conditions, and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director…
