The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are ...

The World Bank has rated the progress of the $300 million Sindh Water and Agriculture Transformation (SWAT) project as ...

Megha Mukim is a senior economist at the World Bank Group, author of several flagship reports, including, most recently ‘Thriving – Making Cities Green, Resilient and Inclusive in a Changing Climate’ ...

The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as ...

According to a new World Bank study, half of all adults do not have a bank account, with 18 percent of those people (click on nearby chart for more info) citing documentation requirements ...

But at the World Bank and IMF spring meetings this year, the German NGO Urgewald released an assessment of over 675 energy projects of the World Bank Group. The study revealed that in the Bank’s ...

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 ...

Central banks’ efforts to tame inflation could tip the world economy into recession next year, according to a new World Bank study that encouraged policy makers in major economies to keep in ...

Reforming the World Bank's approach to risk could unlock nearly $190 billion in additional urgently needed lending for developing countries without jeopardizing its AAA credit rating, a study ...

WASHINGTON, September 22, 2017–New World Bank study, jointly released with the National University of Singapore Business School, and Leuphana University today reveals that psychology-based ...

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 ...