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 ...

Kenya is now poised to receive a delayed Ksh97 billion ($743 million) loan from the World Bank after President William Ruto ...

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

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 ...

Germany will provide an initial contribution of 10 million euros ($11.59 million) to the World Bank trust fund this year with the support of the Compact with Africa, German Finance Minister Lars ...

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 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 ...

The World Bank and IMF are increasingly focused on expanding their mandate at the expense of economic development and financial stability goals. This paper urges these institutions to “get back to ...