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Smart financing to power a more prosperous future: How the World Bank and the International Finance Facility for Education are working together

Education is the cornerstone of economic opportunity and human dignity. It’s the surest path to unlocking potential, creating jobs, improving…

8 months ago

Artificial Intelligence Meets Real Finance: Innovation, Risk, and Regulation

Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial services by improving credit scoring, customer service, fraud detection, and risk management across sectors. The…

8 months ago

Making Connections: How Asia’s Tourism Is Taking Off Again

Asia’s international tourism is steadily rebounding to near pre-pandemic levels. Strategic investments in transport infrastructure and streamlined visa policies are…

8 months ago

Cricket metaphors and finance talk: Five takeaways from a meeting of developing countries

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Under blue skies and palm trees, a stone’s throw from this island nation’s pristine beaches, leaders from…

8 months ago

Use it or lose it: How cognitive skills change with age

Cognitive skills are commonly assumed to begin deteriorating from the age of 30, which could pose a significant challenge for…

8 months ago

Partisan politics and global supply chains: How CEO political alignment shapes trade decisions

Against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical tensions and rapidly shifting global alliances, policymakers are advocating strategies such as ‘friendshoring’ to…

8 months ago

Why the tariffs caused turmoil in financial markets

US administration triggered a global shock by announcing sweeping new tariffs. This column describes how what began as a trade…

8 months ago

Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries

As immigration continues to shape the demographic makeup of developed countries, understanding the factors that promote successful integration across generations…

8 months ago

Living wages and government contracts

Living wages are an increasingly common policy tool for reducing poverty and improving the living standards of low-income workers. But…

8 months ago

Not Triffin, not Miran: Rethinking US external imbalances in a new monetary order

In a recent Vox column, Bordo and McCauley argued that foreign central banks no longer drive US external deficits, and…

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