People inspect the damage after a missile strike in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, 27 March 2023. Photo: EPA
28 March 2023
An anticipated economic slow-down in China is likely to drag global growth down to its...
An exterior view of the Headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC, USA. Photo: EPA
25 July 2022
“Reforms Reversed” is the title of World Bank’s Myanmar Economic Monitor (MEM) July 2022...
A shopkeeper counts the Myanmar kyat currency at his shop in Yangon. Photo: AFP
17 July 2022
A recently released policy brief from the World Bank on the financial sector in Myanmar...
The seal of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is seen outside of a headquarters building in Washington, DC on April 7, 2021. Raising taxes on wealthy firms that have done well during the pandemic is increasingly viewed as a source of revenue to finance pandemic recovery efforts, an idea pushed Wednesday by the IMF and the US. Photo: AFP
25 February 2022
The leaders of the World Bank and IMF signaled Thursday they were ready to help Ukraine,...
An exterior view of the Headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC, USA. Photo: EPA
28 January 2022
Myanmar’s economy and people continue to be severely tested by the ongoing impacts of the...
IMF president Kristalina Georgieva sits before the opening session of the Summit on the Financing of African Economies on May 18, 2021 in Paris. Photo: AFP
18 September 2021
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday disputed an independent investigation which...
The World Bank Group headquarters in Washington, DC, USA. Photo: EPA
01 August 2021
The World Bank in its latest report on Myanmar says jobs and businesses have been...
A car transits an empty road in downtown Yangon on Martyrs' Day, Myanmar, 19 July 2021. Photo: EPA
27 July 2021
Myanmar’s ongoing political turmoil and a rapidly-rising third wave of COVID-19 cases are...
World Bank Group President David Malpass. Photo: EPA
19 February 2021
The World Bank is taking an “extra cautious” stance toward future engagement with Myanmar...
A Myanmar farmer ploughs the paddy field to grow rice crop at a farm in Moulmeingyun township of Ayeyarwaddy region, Myanmar, 23 June 2020.  Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
10 October 2020
The World Bank commissioned a firm-level survey to provide quantitative evidence of the...
A man drives his bullock cart at Ton village in Monywa, Sagaing Division, Myanmar. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
10 July 2020
The World Bank, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has issued a $3.45...
Photo: Thura/Mizzima
27 June 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic is dealing a severe blow to Myanmar’s economy.

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