Madagascar, one of the world’s poorest countries, was hit with a rate of 47 per cent. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Emerging economies worldwide are bracing for sliding currencies and a possible deterioration of their sovereign credit after ...

President Donald Trump’s new reciprocal tariffs are set to hit some of the world’s poorest nations the hardest, putting their labor-intensive export industries at risk and diminishing one of the US’s ...

The latest round of U.S. trade tariffs unveiled on Wednesday will sap yet more vigour from a world economy barely recovered ...

The benefits of structural transformation have tended to accrue to more educated workers, worsening inequality. The World Bank’s Human Capital Index, which measures the amount of human capital that a ...

The Grievance Redress Service (GRS) is an avenue for individuals and communities to submit complaints directly to the World Bank if they believe that a World Bank-supported project has or is likely to ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia ... by the Guinness World Records.

In February, the RBI's Monetary Policy Committee, headed by Governor Sanjay Malhotra, slashed the repo rate by 25 basis ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday. Ronin, a giant ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday. Ronin ...

MUMBAI: The sweeping tariffs announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump pose a significant risk to the global ...

While analysts who said Trump is unlikely to walk his tariff talk have now been proven wrong, there is a growing view that ...