World Bank staff calls for ‘open’ system of presidential selection

The move comes even as the global body called for nominations to select a new president after Jim Yong Kim resigned recently

‘Cancel all debt’: Activists disrupt IMF, World Bank annual meet

Call for reparations as solution for stabilising global economy during debt restructuring panel

India still among countries with poor access to banking: Report

More than half of population without access to banking lives in 7 developing countries: World Bank

Tajikistan launches new methodology to measure poverty

The World Bank and the Tajikistan government have been jointly collecting, analysing and reporting high-quality poverty data

The global green garb

Gay ire

Bad word

Vault the truth

World Bank sets up commission on poverty

Commission to present its report by April 2016

USA - all love lost

Neither the World Bank nor the US and the United Nations (un) are popular around the world. While there is still some hope of the World Bank …

The global environmental fiasco

After six meetings on how to restructure the Global Environment Facility, a consensus remains elusive.

How the World Bank ico-opts NGOs

Is the World Bank really working for the people?

India’s poverty reduction slowing down since a decade

The world finally has an assessment of India’s poverty level in absence of an official one for the last 10 years. It increases global …

Vizhinjam port contract goes to Adanis; Chandy calls all-party meet

Move follows Opposition parties levelling corruption charges against Congress-led Kerala government

Cash-strapped UN

The global godfather of nations - The United Nations Organization is bankrupt and counting its pennies

Inspecting the Inspection Panel

The big farce

The World Bank has once again come out defending its big dam-centered policies

Prude operator

World Bank's efforts to leverage more private investment may undermine development

Stingy lenders

World Bank and IMF oppose increasing debt relief to Africa

Partial relief

World Bank and IMF write off debts for impoverished nations

"A mining company is an elusive animal"

Roger Moody is the director of Nostromo Research, which  investigates mining practices around the world. A leading critic of  the …

Not taking a stand

Panel inspected

The inherently flawed investigation of Nepal's Arun III dam project has undermined the credibility of the World Bank's new Inspection Panel

Window without a green view

Critics question the degree of democracy and transparency involved in the Global Environment Facility's horsetrading of power between the North …

A matter of perception

The nature of the World Bank interest in air pollution in India