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

Israel on Wednesday gave final approval for a long-disputed settlement project in the occupied West Bank, a move that ...

The World Bank has approved $300 million in financing for Nigeria to strengthen resilience and expand access to essential services ...

Joint Statement of the IMF Managing Director and of the World Bank President WASHINGTON, September 7, 2023 —Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Ajay Banga, ...

The World Bank approved a total of $3.53bn (N5.4tn at the official exchange rate of N1,535/$) in health-related loans to ...

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 African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The World Bank (and the IMF) should get credit for increasing their lending to the world's poorest countries during the pandemic. But without additional action, net flows to developing economies ...

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