The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

The goal of financial inclusion is for account owners to benefit from the use of accounts for digital payments, savings, and appropriate credit because such uses provide a range of positive benefits ...

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The immigrants had been working as fruit pickers in southern Italy, the authorities said, apparently as part of a system of criminal labor trafficking. By Ephrat Livni and Josephine de La Bruyère The ...

Global sustainable fund flows turned positive in the first quarter of 2026, recording an estimated USD 3.5 billion in net inflows, following USD 27 billion in outflows in Q4 2025. The turnaround was ...

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The movement for a Jewish state gained traction in the nineteenth century, as Jews increasingly migrated to Ottoman Palestine to escape antisemitism in Europe and return to a land intimately linked to ...