WASHINGTON, May 14, 2024—New World Bank data finds that private infrastructure investment in low- and middle-income countries totaled $86 billion in 2023. Investments declined 5% compared with 2022, ...

Data helps solve development challenges through multiple channels. It is the foundation of the research that informs the decisions of policy makers and development practitioners. It can serve as a ...

Kim Sang-bu, World Bank Vice President overseeing the Digital and AI (Artificial ... “Pursuing only ‘Big AI’ centered on ‘Big ...

The World Bank is looking to evaluate the readiness of ASEAN Member States for cross-border digital identity and verifiable ...

"The statements made by Western countries that they have no plans to hinder the trade and economic ties between our partners and Russia, are baseless," Mikhail Galuzin said MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/.

In 2017, the World Bank pledged that it would stop funding upstream oil and gas projects after 2019. On Monday, a World Bank official said that it could be open to funding natural gas projects in ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

As of October 2025, the World Economic Outlook database and supporting documents will be accessible through the IMF Data portal. For Bolivia, projections for 2027–30 have been omitted because of ...

President Donald Trump has reportedly imposed reciprocal tariffs on some of the world’s most remote and uninhabited locations, along with various global trade partners, on ‘Liberation Day.’ What ...