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 ...

World Bank officials — under fire for losing track of $24 billion in climate funds — are panicking over the prospect of severe budget cuts as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to slash US ...

The IMF and World Bank have delayed significant loan disbursements to Kenya in 2025 after the government failed to meet key ...

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 says frequent increases to the tax‑free threshold have weakened income tax revenues at a time revenues have ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2025 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a USD 6 billion benchmark bond that matures in March 2030. The ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

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 ...

In a significant move to strengthen global public asset management frameworks, the World Bank’s Executive Directors approved the relaunch of the World Bank Reserve Advisory and Management Partnership ...