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The logo for ExxonMobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Top US oil executives to testify before Congress

Top of The World

Top oil executives testify before Congress in a landmark hearing before the US House Oversight Committee. Also, the African Union suspends Sudan over its military coup. And, a new report reveals that Myanmar’s junta tortures its detainees in a systematic way.

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange, New York, March 20, 2020.

How the World Bank Group is helping developing countries respond to COVID-19

COVID-19
Najat Rabat and Yassine Mazzout used to work picking trash from a landfill outside Morocco's capital. Now they work together at a new recycling cooperative.

These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.

Jobs
“In Tanzania, it is as if we don’t exist,” says Salumu Kundaya Kidomwita, a Barabaig cattle herder whose name translates to “Warthog.” At the age of 60, Kidomwita is facing his second eviction in the last decade. After being pushed out of his home by a ri

PHOTOS: Members of evicted tribe say they’re left with nowhere to go

Conflict
Solar panel in Mongolia

The most important work at COP21 may have happened out of the spotlight

Environment
Four years after a forced eviction from ancestral land, the father of 9 year old Revan Pragustiawan says his son is traumatized and afraid to meet people.

In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction

Development

Everything changed for Revan Pragustiawan one morning when a World Bank-backed company pulled up in heavy vehicles and order everyone to leave. The family and everyone else in their hamlet fled while their homes were flattened by bulldozers. What is the World Bank doing?

A man from Awra Amba plows the land adjoining the village.

This Ethiopian village has gained wealth, but has bred hostility

Development & Education

In the impoverished countryside of Ethiopia, the village of Awra Amba stands out. This bustling community has grown wealthier than its neighbors by questioning tenets of local culture.

What the Developing World Can Teach Us about Economic Growth

In September 2011, as Europe struggled to find solutions to its ongoing debt crisis, Robert Zoellick, then president of the World Bank,  told the BBC:”I don’t think China will just come in as a white knight to try to provide money just to bail out Europeans. There would have to be some economic incentive.” Thirty years […]

The World

The world’s poorest countries

Arts, Culture & Media

Today’s Geo Quiz is about money. We Americans aren’t feeling very wealthy right now. Most of us are a lot wealthier still than most of the world’s 6.8 billion people. Most of them are poor. We want to know which are the 5 poorest countries of the world?

The World

Indonesia’s

Indonesia’s highly-rated TV show, “Little Preachers,” was inspired by “American Idol” and other reality show imports. But “Little Preachers” has a purely local twist. It pits child preachers against each other in a contest of who can deliver the best Islamic sermons.