In a bid to increase private capital flows to the countries where it works the World Bank Group is streamlining and scaling ...

While urban inclusion is clearly a multi-faceted issue, traditional interventions have mostly focused on physical improvements such as slum upgrading. In an effort to combat urban poverty and ...

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. The World Bank has upgraded its outlook on Russia’s GDP growth in 2021 to 2.9% compared with its December forecast of 2.6%, and in 2022 - to 3.2% from 3% due to a lower ...

Turkey is in talks with the World Bank to access funding to strengthen and extend the country’s energy transmission grid, part of broader plans to quadruple renewable energy generation capacity ...

A new report from the advocacy group Oxfam revealed significant discrepancies in how the World Bank reports the finances of its climate-linked programs and uncovered a colossal $24 to $41 billion ...