The World Bank Group launched a new guarantee platform on July 1, 2024, to streamline product offerings and maximize the limited capital available for development in emerging markets and developing ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) office in Vienna supports countries and companies in Europe and Central Asia by providing expertise, knowledge, and lending to address their most pressing development ...

World Bank bureaucrats who jetted to the United Nations’ annual global warming conference spewed CO2 emissions equal to what’s produced by 200 US households in a year — sparking accusations ...

By Max Bearak and Somini Sengupta Max Bearak and Somini Sengupta have reported extensively on World Bank projects around the world. As the Trump administration imposes deep cuts on foreign aid and ...

Ongoing war and other conflicts in the Middle East have spilled onto the pages of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, where volunteer editors who maintain the website are sparring over how to frame ...

In January, Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee found that fake online accounts used for deception, known as sock pockets, among the pages relating to Palestine and Israel are “an ongoing issue” which ...

The 2025 Global Digital Summit: 'Digital Pathways for All' has concluded. Recordings of all sessions are available on this page and on the World Bank Group's social media channels. This year’s summit ...

Donald Trump is no fan of international organizations. Just hours after taking office on Jan 20, the U.S. president announced his intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris ...

Iqbal Khan was on top of the world. The 34-year-old finance wunderkind, who had moved from Pakistan to Switzerland when he ...

One is the World Bank. The other is the International Monetary Fund (IMF). You can actually just walk in and demand to look at their books since they are extensions of the U.S. government.

18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) BEIRUT (AP) — The cost of reconstruction and recovery for Lebanon following the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war is estimated at $11 billion, the World Bank said in a ...