The Asia-Pacific region is recovering from its worst recession in living memory. Our latest Regional Economic Outlook shows that a recovery started
World Statistics Day reminds us that to ensure social and economic growth, support for data-backed policymaking is needed.
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Claudio Borio spoke at the Barclays 24th Annual Global Inflation Conference, concluding that inflation is not dead, just in hibernation.
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Cross-border claims contracted by $1.1 trillion from Q1 to Q2 2020. The year-on-year growth rate dropped from 10% at end-March to 5% at end-June 2020. Interbank claims, which had surged in the first quarter, fell sharply, driving the overall contraction.
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President Trump is in Arizona today, where average family incomes hit a record high and the poverty rate hit a record low in 2019 after just three years of President Trump's pro-growth, pro-worker policies.
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Unless access is urgently granted to humanitarian organizations, thousands in the Central Sahel will be “pushed into further destitution”, the UN emergency food relief agency warned on Monday.
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Today, the European Union disbursed €25 million of budget support for The Gambia's response to the coronavirus pandemic. As part of the Team Europe global package, these funds contribute to the recovery from the pandemic and also support the transition towards democracy and medium-term development objectives.
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The Gap Fund aims to back the climate-smart development that will also help cities chart a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
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Today’s decision of the Polish government to join the pan-European guarantee fund (EGF) is very good news for the Polish economy,” said Prof. Teresa Czerwińska, vice-president of the EIB, who oversees operations in Poland. “The guarantee fund, which has just started its operational activity, has been created in a spirit of solidarity by the Member States of
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