A fresh World Bank report highlights the countries most exposed to job automation by AI. This offers insight into the ...

Relatively simple AI tools can help developing economies boost economic growth, but they risk becoming dependent on the U.S.

The impact of artificial intelligence on jobs is significant, with recent World Bank findings highlighting that only 4.5% of jobs in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to AI, compared to 14.

Kenya is in talks for about $450 million of emergency financing from the World Bank to cushion the economy from the impact of the Iran war and potential weather shocks, according to people familiar ...

The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Thailand jointly proclaimed Thailand's readiness to host the "2026 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group". This premier ...

"AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and ​they should seize it," Indermit Gill, the World Bank's chief economist, said in a statement accompanying the report. Companies worldwide are ...

Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini met a World Bank delegation to discuss leveraging AI, digital governance, and skill development ...

Bungling World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24 billion bankrolling the battle against climate change, according to a bombshell report by a left-leaning charity group. An investigation by ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) has appointed Indonesia’s former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as a co-chair tasked with ...

This week, world leaders and central bankers will convene in Washington, D.C., for the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Both the chaos coursing through the ...

The World Bank decided to remove quantitative targets for incorporating climate objectives into its financing, months after criticism from the US — its biggest shareholder — that it should get back to ...