BREAKING: Pakistan achieves a historic milestone as the Sialkot made football for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup reaches both the US President and FIFA President.

Using data from the OPHI/UN Development Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, researchers have developed interactive charts to visualize the #Poverty Space of a country in a given year. Explore and download relevant data: wrld.bg/OZP150VigfS

Governments use fiscal policy to stimulate economic growth, redistribute, and fund essential public services. However, the design of tax and benefit policies can affect women and men differently. Learn more in our latest blog: wrld.bg/C1bl50VnmnH

Meanwhile in homeland!

Multiple loud explosions heard in Pakistani Kashmir -Reuters witness

“War, what war?” — Ethiopian Airlines

Pakistan has now launched attacks in India. India & Pakistan are effectively at war. First time since the Kargil war in 1999-a year after they formally became nuclear states. This will be the biggest test of the nuclear deterrent since Kargil. Int’l mediation likely in overdrive.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir earlier today.  He continued to urge both parties to find ways to deescalate and offered U.S. assistance in starting constructive talks in order to avoid future conflicts. Read text here:

Over the past 48 hours, Vice President JD Vance Vance and I have engaged with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, including Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir, and National Security Advisors Ajit

Pakistan has consistently persued dialogue and diplomacy as the only viable path to peace. War, violence and aggression are never the answer. Now that both India and Pakistan have agreed to a cease fire & dialogue we welcome this as a victory for diplomacy. We appreciate the

Supreme Court of Pakistan has upheld death sentence of psychopath killer of #noormukaddam The brutal killing and long delaying tactics by the killer come to an end. There is no room for such heinous murderers in a society.

This is so heartbreaking and brings back haunting memories of #APS Peshawar May the peace and light of heaven be with you, little angels #APSkhuzdar

Join us on July 8 for a full day of insights and debate on policy innovations to tackle economic #inequality. We’ll kick off with a thought-provoking opening debate on “Does Inequality Matter for Development?” featuring Indermit Gill (World Bank Chief Economist) and François

This is Gus. He was caught sitting at the kitchen table while home alone. His motives remain unknown. 14/10

How fiscal interventions alter income distribution in Middle East and North Africa countries? Using the Commitment to Equity framework, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Beenish Amjad, and Mario Julian Loayza Grisi suggest that direct cash transfers and social assistance programs are

"It's probably the first time he's watched me and I won the match." Novak Djokovic is relieved to get a win in front of Roger Federer 😅 #Wimbledon

Join us NOW for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Prof. & #NobelPrize Laureate Daron Acemoglu's keynote address on whether technological progress can build shared prosperity as part of the 11th Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (Ecineq). worldbank.org/en/events/2025…

Kicked off the first day of the 11th Ecineq Conference hosted by World Bank and GW University! Great to see so many brilliant minds gathered to discuss economic inequality and the pathways to address it. A special highlight was the opening keynote by Daron Acemoglu, expertly chaired

Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latam Econ Tulane University & Dir @CEQInstitute Nora Lustig will deliver the final keynote address of the 11th Ecineq conference co-hosted by World Bank & GW University. Watch here on July 11, 11:30-12:30 PM ET: wrld.bg/psRt50WlRYm