The World Bank has approved a $40 million grant under the HOPE-Health-PforR initiative to enhance health protection and ...

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

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

The fund is targeting the development of at least 25,000 homes in the affordable and mid segments, while keeping with green ...

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

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

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 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 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.