In advance of the next meeting of the Sovereign Debt Roundtable on April 12, I want to provide a quick update on recent developments and reiterate my call for prompt action toward debt…

David Malpass |

Cities around the world experienced 5 percent increase in expenditures and 10 percent decrease in revenues during 2020, on average. Read the latest World Bank blog on the case of Pereira, Colombia…

Ivonne Astrid Moreno Horta |

Digital financial services are one way to help families manage school fee payments so they can keep their children in school.

Leora Klapper, Mansi Vipin Panchamia |

Ministries of Finance play a critical role in driving private sector net zero commitments, having levers of influence that are more effective in bringing about change than companies’ voluntary…

Olha Krushelnytska |

While eager to embrace the fintech promise, financial authorities—including those with an explicit financial inclusion mandate—need to be able to do so in a safe and responsible way. Innovation…

Tatiana Alonso Gispert, Pierre-Laurent Chatain |

The financial services industry around the world has been transformed by technology-enabled financial services—known as fintech. This disruptive technology is reshaping financial products,…

Mari Elka Pangestu |

Because policy making requires evidence-based, high-quality representative data, countries are making measuring informal businesses’ activity a priority.

Filip Jolevski, Gemechu Ayana Aga, David Francis, Jorge Luis Rodriguez Meza, Joshua Wimpey |

Not only is macro stability critical to Latin America and Caribbean citizens' wellbeing, but it is an essential foundation for faster growth and poverty alleviation.

William Maloney |

Cryptocurrencies, and in particular Bitcoin, initially gained popularity for promising anonymity, permissionless payments, and an alternative to cross-border remittances. However, the rapid growth…

Harish Natarajan, Andrés F. Martínez, Maksym Iavorskyi |