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

The World Bank is considering securitizing some of the projects it’s backing to attract more private funding as it prepares ...

The World Bank Group has signed on as co-chair of the Mobilizing Access to the Digital Economy (MADE) Alliance: Africa, joining current co-chairs the African Development Bank Group and Mastercard in ...

The World Bank has approved $748 million in concessional financing for Türkiye to modernize and expand its electricity ...

The World Bank has played a leading role in promoting adaptive social protection, helping countries build systems to better ...

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 ...

In 2013, the bank set a goal to end extreme poverty, experienced by people living on $2.15 or less per day, by 2030. World Bank officials have since said that the lender will not succeed in that ...

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.