The natural disaster killed more than 640 people, and affected more than 10 percent of Sri Lanka's population. Floods and ...
The World Bank has approved a $500 million facility for Nigeria to expand longer-term lending to small and medium sized ...
The World Bank has approved 350 million euros ($410 million) in financing to support a project aimed at improving skills ...
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 Board of Executive Directors today approved financing for two critical programs in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to help improve air quality for 270 million people, ...
Authorities in Guiyang have applied for $250 million in funding for the development Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...
The World Bank is partnering with Turkey's Vakifbank to mobilise up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.76 billion) to expand access to ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2025 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a USD 5 billion benchmark bond that matures in August 2035. The ...
The World Bank said on Friday that it has approved $700 million in financing for Pakistan under a multi-year initiative aimed ...
Impoverished countries do not have much in common. Half the population of Niger, a landlocked African nation beset by military coups, live in extreme poverty, eight in ten people have no access to ...
Created in the aftermath of World War II, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)—referred to here as the Bretton Woods institutions—have played an important role in the international ...
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 ...