The World Bank said on Friday it had approved a $650 million loan to support the Istanbul Resilience Project, an investment ...

The alleged abuse occurred in separate incidents in November 2023, February 2023, and as recently as July 2025.

The World Bank's International Finance Corporation on Friday approved a loan and investment worth up to $250 million in a polysilicon manufacturing project in Oman for solar power applications, over ...

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

International financial experts have significantly downgraded economic projections for both America and the world, with the ...

Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has taken a step towards addressing environmental challenges by initiating an institutional framework in collaboration with the World Bank to generate reliable ...

The World Bank has approved $748 million in concessional financing for Türkiye to modernize and expand its electricity ...

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 ...

In 2013, the bank set a goal to end extreme poverty, experienced by people living on $2.15 or less per day, by 2030. World Bank officials have since said that the lender will not succeed in that ...

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 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 ...