Project 2025’s call for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Bank would be a strategic mistake, as it would allow America’s competitors to gain a historic victory. The World Bank needs ...

The project was supposed to be a boon for wildlife-based tourism in the East African country, but critics say it came “at an ...

World Bank President Ajay Banga said boosting access to electricity is the key to unlocking the demographic dividend in the ...

A coalition of leading African civil society groups called on the World Bank to exit its investments in for-profit hospitals, ...

Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — the cost-slashing body known as DOGE — should train its sights on the World Bank after it was ...

The World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with key energy partners and nearly 30 African heads ...

WASHINGTON, January 14, 2025—The World Bank Group’s Boards of Executive Directors today discussed the new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Pakistan, which aims to support inclusive and ...

Pakistan has agreed to an unprecedented ten-year plan with the World Bank which will see $20 billion (€19.4 billion) worth of loans for the country's cash-strapped economy. The South Asian ...

Pakistan confirmed on Wednesday that the World Bank has pledged to lend $20 billion over the next decade, commencing in 2026 under its Country Partnership Framework, to help address the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday warned that U.S. across-the-board tariffs of 10% could reduce already lackluster global economic growth of 2.7% in 2025 by 0.3 percentage ...

Foreign direct investment is flowing into the developing world at half the level of the early 2000s, the bank said. Globally, countries imposed five times as many new trade barriers last year as ...