The pace of population growth is most staggering in Africa, which will be home to one in four people by 2050. Between now and then estimates suggest: Zambia will add 700,000 people every year.

The World Bank has launched its first open-source software tool, the Metadata Editor, marking a significant step in its commitment to data transparency and open science. This web-based application is ...

The World Bank is considering securitizing some of the projects it’s backing to attract more private funding as it prepares to roll out a series of debt-for-development swaps, President Ajay Banga ...

Trade tensions and fractious geopolitics risk exposing deep fault lines in the global financial system, the central bank umbrella body, Bank for International Settlements, said in its latest ...

The core mission of the World Bank is a world free of poverty on a livable planet. Measuring poverty on a regular basis using timely and relevant data is critical to tracking progress toward this goal ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Rebuilding Syria after more than a decade of civil war is expected to cost about $216 billion, the World ...

CHENNAI: CityI Union Bank Ltd, a private bank established in 1904, announced that it has secured $50 million commitment from ...