The global economy is set to shrink by one to two percent this year, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday, saying the depth of the sl...
At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...
BEIJING — The World Bank cut its forecast of China's 2009 growth from 7.5 percent to 6.5 percent on Wednesday due to plunging exports but expres...
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...
"POOR countries are innocent," says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian managing director of the World Bank. They did not contribute one jot to the glob...
More and more, the danger of a rerun of the 1930s, in which extremist movements profit from financial depression, looms as a real prospect.
Developing countries may face a financing gap of $270bn to $700bn this year as trade income dwindles and rich nations vie for capital to deal with a g...
In a bleaker assessment than those of most private forecasters, the World Bank also predicted that the global economy would shrink in 2009 for the fir...
As impressive as the Czech Republic's meteoric rise to a stable and thriving country has been, equally noteworthy is how, as Czechs have risen upward, they've reached outward as well.
Kenya must tackle the roots of its election chaos. These include poverty, tribalism, and the failure of the country to live up to the vision of its first president, Jomo Kenyatta.
LIMA, Peru — Global climate change threatens the complete disappearance of the Andes' tropical glaciers within the next 20 years, putting precio...
The Third World exists in a precarious state of neo colonial dependency and cannot follow our path out of economic disaster because we insist they don't.
Addressing global poverty at its roots means recognizing that the most significant factors driving up food costs are the diversion of crops to biofuels and the growing demand for meat.
More than 80% of Nepalese live in villages with very little access to health, education and other modern amenities. Lands seized by Maoists during the decade long war from 1996 to 2006 have not been returned to the owners.
Below is a clip where I talk about how much brainpower is wasted in top-down hierarchical systems like the World Bank.
Filmmaker John D. Liu believes we have a solution to climate change, but it's not as simple as reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Here are excerpts from my recent telephone interview with him.
As the rest of the world braces for a global economic dive, thousands of visitors flood into Beirut. The streets are crowded, shops are bustling and political chatter takes an unusual backseat to celebration.
Today is day of celebration for the progress we have made in the 60 years since the Declaration was signed. However, the litany of abuses does not afford us a second of self-congratulation.
Global oil demand will collapse next year and commodities will not return to the highs they reached this summer in the foreseeable future, two authori...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The World Bank and International Monetary Fund warned Saturday that Gaza's severe cash shortage may cause local banks to c...
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Travelers to Africa and Asia all have their favorite forms of foreign aid to "make a difference." One of mine is a miracle subst...
At a time when the World Bank describes the Obama Administration as embracing e-government themes, why does the President-elect's own tech roadmap fail to mention it by name?
There is good reason to believe that South America, in particular, can weather this storm with minimal damage if it adopts the right macro-economic policies.
I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...
First the years-late call on the global food crisis. Now, Robert Zoellick, current World Bank president, has done it again on the international financial crisis.
