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Data literacy and the enabling environment to access and use data are crucial to empower all people to participate in and benefit from the data revolution. The World Bank’s Data Use and Literacy ...

The World Bank raised on Thursday its forecast for China's economic growth in 2024 and 2025, but warned that subdued ...

But what has China actually achieved? We've compared the Chinese data with global poverty figures compiled by the World Bank. Poverty is defined by China as anyone in rural areas earning less than ...

The IMF, jointly with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank, disseminates data on external debt, which are ...

India has achieved a historic milestone by receiving $129.1 billion in remittances in 2024, marking the highest-ever ...

Global life expectancy at birth recovered from a two-year decline in 2022 but has yet to return to the record high hit in 2019. The most recent figures available from the World Bank indicate ...

The World Bank received pledges to deploy a record of $100 billion via its unit focused on low-interest loans and grants to the poorest nations. The total figure to fund its International ...

The World Bank has announced that it has raised close to $24bn to provide loans and grants for some of the world’s poorest nations, which it can leverage to generate a record $100bn in total ...

A consortium of seven financial institutions, including the World Bank's private investment arm International Finance Corporation, will lend more than $900 million to Yondr Group to develop its ...