The Latest Breaking News from the World Bank Group

Around the world, societies are looking for ways to live with climate change. Adapting to a hotter and harsher future means scientists, governments and communities must find ways to protect essential resources like land, homes, farms and water. Buildings need to stay cooler and withstand storms and floods, and crops…

Three development banks, including the World Bank, have collectively invested $1 billion in 55 highly-polluting livestock projects between 2018 and 2024, new research claims

Calls grow for independent inquiry after the bank’s internal watchdog found 21 cases of child sexual abuse by teaching staff

To what extent does private investment help developing countries to reduce conflict and violence and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

At its launch almost a decade ago, the BRICS nations’ New Development Bank (NDB) was celebrated as a chance for countries across the Global South to break free of the US-dominated IMF and World Bank and rewrite the rules of financing global development. But while the number of nations signed…

US-based lender says controversial anti-gay law contradicts its values.

International Finance Corp (IFC), a unit of the World Bank Group, is providing a US$105-million loan to Thai Credit Retail Bank Plc (Thai Credit) to support female entrepreneurs in Thailand.

The Prime Minister will tell the London summit that Britain will stand with Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’.

From the ashes of World War II, three institutions were created as linchpins of a new global order