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The Philippine economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank said, as it expressed support for the Marcos administration’s efforts to promote sustainable growth.

Koreas central bank held its key interest rate steady for the third straight time Thursday as it trimmed this years growth estimate in the face of an extended slowdown in exports...

Koreas per capita income has grown over 400 times during the past 60 years, since the Korean government first launched its ambitious five-year development plan in 1962, Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho said in a conference held to commemorate the countrys economic development achievements.

MANILA — World Bank Managing Director for Operations, Anna Bjerde, concluded her two-day visit to the Philippines today, reiterating the World Bank's strong support for the country in achieving its vision of becoming a prosperous, inclusive society f

Managing director says WB looking to explore sub-national lending

MANILA (Reuters) - The World Bank will press for more grants and new capital from member countries, even as it leverages its balance sheet to scale up lending for responses to climate change and other global crises, its managing director of operations said on Tuesday. | 05:15am

WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR ANNA BJERDE: ISSUE OF CAPITAL INCREASE 'AN ONGOING CONVERSATION' ... | 05:10am

The World Bank says it will press for more grants and new capital from member countries to fight global crises.

The World Bank says the climate change fight demands a focus on long-neglected structural challenges that are worsening the impact of natural disasters in

The World Bank says setting right policy foundation is critical to the country’s sustainable and inclusive economic recovery from Tropicl Cyclone Freddy. In a write up titled ‘Moving from response to resilience as external shocks and macro-fiscal imbalances persist in Malawi, the World Bank vice-president for Eastern and Southern Africa Victoria Kwakwa advised the Malawi