Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, confidently suggested last week that when the country’s national bank issues its final figures for 2019, growth in the...
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The regulatory environment for women’s economic participation has improved over the past two years, with 40 economies enacting 62 reforms that will help women – half the...
We started the year with a bang, proclaiming Romania, then led by prime minister Viorica Dancila, unready to take on the presidency of the Council of the European Union...
‘Climate strike’ is the Collins Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year, reflecting how climate demonstrations have drawn millions of participants worldwide...
Policymakers should act promptly to enhance debt sustainability and reduce exposure to economic shocks, amidst a sharp increase in both public and private debt. Levels...
Armenia is actively working to better position itself on the investment map by creating a more attractive business climate. Foreign investment will be crucial for...
Thanks to technology, economies around the world have made it substantially easier for their businesses to pay taxes, according to Paying Taxes 2020, an annual study of...
The World Bank has announced that it will provide a new loan of 50 million US dollars to finance around half of Armenia’s budget deficit projected for 2019 and to...
Faruk Khan, the World Bank’s lead economist on Ukraine, has said that opening up the country’s land market would allow the Ukrainian economy to grow by 0.5-1.5 per cent...
Albania will improve gender equality in access to economic opportunities with support from a 10 million-US dollar loan from the World Bank. The financing will support...
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings in October were held with dark clouds on the horizon – both literally (it was a rainy week) and...
The final 22 kilometre stretch of a new 87 kilometre section of the Serbian E80 motorway was inaugurated by the president of Serbia, Aleksander Vučić, and the prime...
