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

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

Multilateral lender World Bank has approved a $700-million loan for the Philippine government’s initiative to make ...

The World Bank has maintained its focus on climate change and gender equality issues in the Pacific, managing director of ...

The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Tsutomu Yamamoto as Managing Director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), home of the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform.

The World Bank is providing a $700-million loan to strengthen community resilience for 18 million households in the ...

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 ...

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.

The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as part of a broader push to meet rising electricity needs, the bank's ...

The World Bank is an international development organization owned by 189 countries. Its role is to reduce poverty by lending money to the governments of its poorer members to improve their economies ...

World Bank plans securitization to attract private funding for development projects in poorest nations, speeding up progress.