All this and more on this edition of World Street. Wages Up Or Shutters Down As the new minimum wage hike law is slated to take effect in California from April 1, fast-food restaurants and ...

Blueprints like the G20 one on reforming multilateral development banks abound, but it takes political will to tackle the ...

World Bank warns of rising poverty in Pakistan due to sluggish growth, high inflation, and missed macroeconomic targets.

PARIS/BASEL - For the first time in two years, some low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) can access the bond ...

First of 3 parts Humanity generates between 2.1 billion and 2.3 billion tons of municipal solid waste a year. When improperly ...

The wages of daily labourers increased only five per cent in nominal terms during the first quarter of this fiscal year when ...

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka will return to growth this year, the World Bank said Tuesday ... and protests over the resulting shortages of food, fuel and pharmaceuticals forced its president to resign.

The World Bank has painted a grim economic picture of Pakistan in its biannual report, cautioning that over 10 million more ...

The World Bank has painted a grim economic ... this fiscal year when the inflation was above 30 per cent, it said. The persisting cost-of-living crisis coupled with rising transportation costs ...

Sudan is on track to become the world’s worst hunger crisis ... the World Food Programme, which is the largest food aid producer, is cutting its budget, is cutting its staff by 30%, because ...