ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

The forecast for 2025 is broadly unchanged from that in the October 2024 World Economic Outlook (WEO), primarily on account of an upward revision in the United States offsetting downward revisions in ...

Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough ! The International Monetary Fund: an ABC 2.0 10 December 2024 - by Eric Toussaint The World Bank and the IMF ...

This seminar will discuss the communications challenges faced by central banks in today's economic policy environment, and with today's rapid and globalized information flows. In sharing and analyzing ...

The first one highlights thesurge in world conflicts, a situation where "history now seems to be ... is therefore necessary to save the 'good' of globalization: the "free circulation of goods ...

Former UT Bank founder and CEO Prince Kofi Amoabeng has questioned the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) involvement in the closure of UT Bank and how the process was carried out. Speaking on ...

The former founder and CEO of UT Bank, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, has voiced his suspicions about the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the closure of the bank. In an interview on Joy ...

The World Bank has detected a flaw in the recently launched Uraan Pakistan plan, pointing out that the national economic vision lacks the basic ingredient required to fix Pakistan's ailing economy ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2025—Developing economies—which fuel 60 percent of global growth—are projected to finish the first quarter of the 21st century with the weakest long-term growth outlook since 2000 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The World Bank building in Washington, Monday, April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) Updated [hour ...