Capital account liberalization—that is, easing restrictions on capital flows across a country’s borders—provides a big part of the answer. But while the increase in these flows since the ...

While most countries have just one capital city, a few around the world take a different approach, splitting national duties across two or even three capital cities. Whether for historical ...

Natural capital accounts are a set of objective data showing how a country’s natural resources in terms of stocks and flows of natural capital contribute to the economy and how the economy affects ...

Currently the highest long-term capital gains tax rate is 20% ... that played out for the last guy who tried it … the entire ...

Through global capital markets, IBRD and IDA mobilize finance for our client countries. As Bank operations scaled up to address the COVID-19 pandemic in fiscal 2020, we raised exceptional levels of ...

A tourist who has visited all 54 countries in Africa revealed that its largest country's capital was one of his favourites.