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Biden’s plan to spend billions on health, home care and education is good economics and politics
Conflict is impoverishing the region and destroying decades of donor-funded projects
Argument for solidarity tax is based on political reasoning and not economics
Creditors should allow debtors to discharge liabilities by backing environmental projects
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy tell the story of how the noughties super-cycle catapulted trading houses to extraordinary wealth
Makhtar Diop’s appointment at International Finance Corporation cements good month for African international diplomacy
The cost of jabs for all would be a rounding error; it is also the only way to end the pandemic for good
Months of missed classroom lessons will have long-term consequences
Logistical problems and reluctance to be immunised pose threat to economic recovery
Impact of pandemic will send personal incomes in Africa’s largest economy back four decades
Markets seem unconcerned that the pandemic has left borrowing at all-time highs
Renaissance man who transformed the global financial institution, and the world’s view of it
From tech to travel, many businesses are likely to feel the pain of economic fallout
The pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital financial services
Birth of the UN shows dramatic change is possible when world powers face a shared existential threat
‘First fight the war, then figure out how to pay for it,’ warns longtime debt critic Carmen Reinhart
Many ‘new poor’ will be in urban areas and relatively well-educated, says report
Emerging economies face ‘lost decade’ if debt costs divert social spending
Multilateral lender to conduct ‘systematic review’ of last five Doing Business reports
Fall in commodity prices benefits advanced economies
There is little incentive to end the polluting practice because of low oil and gas prices
World Bank’s well-meaning instruments, designed around Ebola, had several design flaws
Critics say ‘convoluted’ scheme favoured investors and was too slow to pay out to victims
Pandemic set to plunge over 50m people back into hardship, World Bank official says
Scheme will provide up to $5bn in loans to help enterprises hit by coronavirus
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