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A deal between Starbucks and Ethiopia that ends their trademark dispute and offers more benefits to Ethiopian coffee farmers has been hailed as a potential model for other poor…
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is uncloaking new measures at the institution apparently designed to appease his critics and regain the initiative after weeks of fast retreat…
Despite denials by World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz on Thursday, newly disclosed internal documents indicate that the bank may, in fact, have reversed a long-standing policy…
A controversial raise for a World Bank employee who has been romantically involved with the bank’s president, Paul Wolfowitz, was not the work of the bank’s ethics committee, as…
The international advocacy group Oxfam is taking on United States coffee retailer Starbucks over the chain’s reluctance to grant Ethiopian coffee farmers the right to control…
An independent review of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) operations in Africa says the lender’s work is confused, vague, lacks transparency and suffers from a large gap…
Samar, a mother of four who works as a maid cleaning apartments and houses for a daily rate, was planning to circumcise her five-year-old daughter, Shaimaa, when she turns eight…
The Islamic female veil has again become a bone of contention in this country after Egypt’s long-time Culture Minister, Farouq Hosni, joined an international chorus decrying the…
International companies and local elites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are pocketing revenues from copper and cobalt production instead of sharing it with local…
A new report by the self-auditing arm of the World Bank has painted a grim picture of the results of a decade-long plan by the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to…
