The United Kingdom has announced a 40% increase in its contribution to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA)—from 1.414 billion GBP in IDA20 and to GBP 1.98 billion GBP in IDA21 ...

Hezbollah has vowed to continue its resistance and support Palestinians on the day its ceasefire deal with Israel came into ...

BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike flattened a building near one of Beirut’s ... participation in overseeing ceasefire compliance. A World Bank report estimated the cost of physical damage and ...

Plans are underway for a massive skyscraper in Tokyo that could become the world’s tallest building. Called the Sky Mile Tower, the structure would reach 5,577 feet - about twice the height of ...

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered preparations for the annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of ... over a remit including building regulations and the ...

A hotel in the Philippines now has something to crow about – a Guinness Book of World Records accolade for the biggest chicken-shaped building in the world. The quirky hotel is a recent addition ...

Tajikistan joined the World Bank in 1993 and IDA in 1994 ... as well as institutional capacity building of tax, finance, and statistics bodies. Tajikistan's economy grew by 8.3% in 2023, supported by ...

Then you should know that a spot in the Philippines has become home, officially, to the world's largest building shaped like a chicken! In the quaint town of Campuestohan in Negros Occidental ...

SPRINGFIELD — The former headquarters of Hampden Savings Bank at 1665 Main St. was sold ... retail space and upstairs housing. The historic building — most recently a law office — was ...

It required in-depth development expertise to navigate such a complex project, not least the complications of building over an operational underground station and the interface with Crossrail, set ...

for $2.3 million from RDV Corp. Credit: Mark Sanchez, Crain’s Grand Rapids Business Independent Bank Corp. has purchased a downtown office building from the DeVos family and plans to relocate its ...

The Reserve Bank of India has expressed concern over the 'growth-at-any-cost approach' of some lenders and has already taken action against a few. Six years after India’s shadow-banking sector blew up ...