WASHINGTON, February 9, 2026 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $50 million in financing to boost Nepal’s digital public infrastructure and digitize public services, fundamentally changing how services are delivered to the people.The Nepal Digital Transformation Project will invest in digital platforms includin...
Food security policy across the Asia-Pacific is shifting from high-level commitments toward actions, as APEC economies advance concrete measures to reduce food loss and waste, strengthen supply chains and scale digital innovation in agriculture.At their meeting in Guangzhou, food security and agricultural officials reviewed progress and examined a range of...
Remarks by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at the 2026 AlUla Conference for Emerging Market Economies in AlUla, Saudi ArabiaAl salam Alaikum! Welcome everyone! Let me thank Minister Al-Jadaan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for once again hosting this fantastic conference in AlUla. We launched this conference last year in recognit...
To make sure that countries know exactly what they’re buying and selling, and how any tariffs might apply, the world developed a uniform system for classifying goods.As Uzbekistan prepares for its impending accession to the World Trade Organization, their customs officials received extensive training on how this classification system works. While it ...
Headline and core HICP inflation expectations unchanged across all horizonsReal GDP growth expectations unchanged except for a slight upward revision for 2026Unemployment rate expectations unchanged for 2026 and 2027 but slightly lower thereafterRespondents’ expectations for headline inflation, as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP)...
Pretoria, South Africa — Thursday, 5 February 2026Exporters of indigenous essential and vegetable oils and the many downstream processors in cosmetics, food and health sectors, who understand and apply the internationally recognized “℮” mark to prepackaged goods, gain a direct route to reduced border delays, lowered compliance risk, and strengthened co...
Vienna, Austria, 6 February 2026 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) concluded grant agreements with all 47 Japanese companies for feasibility studies to test their innovative technologies and new business models with their partners in Ukraine, as part of UNIDO’s flagship initiative, the G...
Jump to the transcript of the questions and answersGood afternoon, the Vice-President and I welcome you to our press conference.We would like to begin by congratulating Bulgaria on joining the euro area on 1 January 2026. We also warmly welcome Dimitar Radev, the Governor of Българска народна банка (Bulgarian National Bank), to th...
On February 3, 2026, the New Development Bank (NDB) successfully priced a USD 2 billion 3-year Regulation S benchmark bond under NDB’s USD 50 billion Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) Programme. The coupon was set at 4%.The transaction attracted robust and diversified investor demand, with orders totalling over USD 6.7 billion, from over 100 accounts. Allocati...
Remarks by IMF Managing Director Kristalina GeorgievaAt the North Africa: Connecting Continents, Creating Opportunities Conference, Algiers, AlgeriaLet me begin by expressing my deep appreciation to our hosts in Algeria: Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb and Governor Mouatassem Boudiaf, and all those who have worked to bring us together in beautiful Algiers—a ci...
