The Latest Breaking News from World Bank

It is too early to tell whether all the talk about reforming development finance at this year's International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings will translate into meaningful policy action for the Global South. But multilateral financial institutions increasingly recognise the need to evolve to remain relevant in light…

As the 16th president of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu inherits an economy that is grappling with inflation, chronic unemployment, extreme poverty, crumbling infrastructure and insecurity.

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse because of a common, undeniable factor: their struggle to pay back hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China

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The World Bank has suspended funding for humanitarian and development projects in Democratic Republic of Congo worth more than $1 billion after the government dissolved the project fund without warning, the lender said.

In Indonesia's far-east island of Sumba, off-grid solar is lighting up lives for residents still living out of reach of the country's national electricity provider

Senior World Bank officials have expressed interest in the various projects planned by Kerala for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, the State government said on Friday.

Martin Raiser, Vice President for the South Asia Region, World Bank, on Friday underscored the need for continued vigilance against zoonotic diseases.

Additional World Bank funding for Kerala totalling $315 million, subject to negotiations and approvals, is in the pipeline, Martin Raiser, Vice President for the South Asia Region, World Bank, said here on Friday.

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