International financial experts have significantly downgraded economic projections for both America and the world, with the ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

New Zealand's central bank cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to a three-year low of 3.00% on Wednesday, and flagged ...

By Joshua Worlasi AMLANUGhana’s economy has expanded over the past decade, but job creation has lagged sharply behind the ...

Early 2025 saw food prices in Jordan on the rise. The trend has been straining household budgets and could be exacerbated by ...

The World Bank said on Friday it had approved a $650 million loan to support the Istanbul Resilience Project, an investment ...

The World Bank approved a total of $3.53bn (N5.4tn at the official exchange rate of N1,535/$) in health-related loans to ...

Under pressure from world leaders, development experts and shareholders, the bank opens its spring meeting on Monday, poised for big changes. By David Gelles and Alan Rappeport Mr. Gelles writes ...

The World Bank is an international development organization owned by 189 countries. Its role is to reduce poverty by lending money to the governments of its poorer members to improve their economies ...

The World Bank sees better global economic growth than previously forecast in 2023, due to resilient U.S. consumer spending and China’s recovery from the pandemic earlier this year.

The World Bank is in a unique position to help developing countries prepare for climate change. Here are two things critics say it could do better, and one they say it shouldn’t do at all.