Taking advantage of debt relief can be a smart move at nearly any time, but it could make even more sense now.

For several years Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been left out of the World Bank’s “Heavily Indebted Poor Country” (HIPC) debt relief initiative. At last, Haiti may soon see ...

With the countdown to the end of his presidency underway, President Joe Biden has been fielding a variety of last-minute appeals to address an array of social and environmental issues—from ...

It just isn’t growing fast enough to bring relief to the world’s poorest, the World Bank said Thursday in its ... high levels of debt, the increasing costs of climate change and growing ...

LIBREVILLE, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The World Bank has suspended its disbursements to Gabon due to debt arrears of 17 billion CFA francs ($27 million), the central African country's public accounts ...