The Latest Breaking News from the World Bank

West’s dominance is being challenged, with Brics summit showing emerging markets are unwilling to bow to pressure

Global commodity prices should fall to a five-year low next year thanks to a huge oil glut, the World Bank said Tuesday, pointing to oversupply and to flat demand from China.

Explore the potential impact of the U.S. presidential election on global economic policies and the IMF and World Bank's roles in maintaining economic stabi...

Setbacks mean UN goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is impossible to hit, report finds

The Gaza Strip is in ruins

About 600 million Africans don't have electrical service in their homes, with electrification rates in West Africa as low as 8%.

Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change

Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their lives

A year of war in the Gaza Strip has reverberated across the West Bank, where the World Bank warns the economy is at risk of collapse because of Israeli restrictions barring Palestinian laborers from entering the country to work and the biggest wave of violence in decades