International Development Association

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - Global finance officials endorsed a new World Bank goal to end extreme global poverty by 2030 and emphasized that its focus should be on ensuring that the poorest benefit from strong growth and...

LANCASTER — Cell phones are becoming too costly for some solid waste employees in Garrard County, in part because they are using personal phones for work, said Chris Thomason, solid waste coordinator for Garrard and Lincoln counties. Thomason...

A group of investors, including Roanoke Development Consultant Brian Wishneff, has agreed to purchase the former Giles Memorial Hospital in Pearisburg.  The property currently houses a dialysis clinic, and the new owners envision a health campus that...

LANCASTER — Garrard County Fiscal Court voted 3-2 Tuesday to reject the first reading of a revised 2012-13 county budget, for the second time in less than a month citing concerns about the salary of Garrard County Economic Development Director...

LANCASTER — Garrard County Fiscal Court voted 3-2 Tuesday to reject the first reading of a revised 2012-13 county budget, citing concerns for the second time in less than a month about the salary of county Economic Development Director Nathan Mick....

The World Bank passed a big test in December when Congress quietly approved its request for additional funding, part of the development group's first general capital increase in more than 20 years. During a time of fiscal stress and partisan gridlock, the...