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

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

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

Nigeria's debt to the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) has risen to $18.2 billion in 2024, up from $16.5 billion in 2025.

The World Bank Group has highlighted Ghana’s current political stability as a critical opportunity for the Mahama-led ...

The World Bank has noted that despite the expansion of Ghana’s economy, access to jobs remains a significant challenge for ...

UN Watch is calling on the World Bank to fire senior economist Massimiliano Cali over social media posts that the ...

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 and IMF are increasingly focused on expanding their mandate at the expense of economic development and financial stability goals. This paper urges these institutions to “get back to ...

David Malpass' departure from the World Bank presents an opportunity for President Biden to select a new leader fully committed to boosting financing. The next Bank's next must be someone who is ...

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.