The U.S. will provide on-site passport services this week in a settlement in the West Bank, marking the first time American ...

Elimination must build on locally driven, grassroots achievements Global efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) stand at a crossroads, with uneven progress, commitments increasingly ...

A World Bank report warned of a "shockingly large" gap between legislation promoting gender equality and its enforcement, with no country currently ensuring all the legal rights required for women's ...

This paper studies how improvements in regulatory information systems affect credit allocation in rural financial markets. In 2021, the Central Bank of Brazil introduced major enhancements to the ...

There are less than four months until kick-off in the 2026 World Cup across Canada, Mexico and the United States. The news is really starting to ramp up ahead of the summer and you can follow it all ...

Newsday Zimbabwe ZIMBABWE loses approximately US$1,36 billion each year due to gender-based violence (GBV), according to preliminary findings of a study conducted by the World Bank in partnership with ...

Data released Thursday by the Census Bureau showed the overall trade deficit with the world narrowed, the result of an expanding trade surplus in services. The trade deficit in goods was the highest ...

January spending for Bank of America credit and debit card customers was up 2.6% year over year, the biggest annual increase ...

SWB’s public debut marks the SPAC comeback, as the crypto-focused bank teams up with Animoca Brands and lines up a substantial equity facility for its ambitious launch. SWB is making its move just as ...

About the Data: The variables in the data are created based on the 2025 edition of OECD-ICIO covering year 2022 and Constantinescu (2025). Data Download, Metadata, and Readme File: The data underlying ...

This paper examines whether small low- and middle-income countries offer excess returns and diversification benefits to global investors. Using monthly equity price data from 2015–25, the study pools ...

Bronwyn Cumbo receives funding from the Australia Public Policy Challenge Grant for her research investigating possibilities and challenges to establishing New South Wales as a sustainable data centre ...