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

Indonesia's central bank cut interest rates in a surprise move on Wednesday, stepping up support for Southeast Asia's largest ...

Nigeria's debt to the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) has risen to $18.2 billion in 2024, up from $16.5 billion in 2025.

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

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

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 ...