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

Rising food costs are a complex challenge. World Bank reports disturbing trend in food prices — here's what's happening first ...

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

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 ...

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.