The Latest Breaking News from the World Bank

Downward trend in oil price from higher production, falling demand in China and clean energy to continue

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urges the World Bank to offer more affordable lending with competitive pricing models at its 2024 Annual Meetings. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Gaza Strip is in ruins

About 600 million Africans don't have electrical service in their homes, with electrification rates in West Africa as low as 8%.

Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change

Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their lives

A year of war in the Gaza Strip has reverberated across the West Bank, where the World Bank warns the economy is at risk of collapse because of Israeli restrictions barring Palestinian laborers from entering the country to work and the biggest wave of violence in decades

The country’s highest food inflation levels in decades have pushed businesses to shutter and forced many to go hungry.

Supporters rally to Rachel Kyte after criticism of appointment over link to investment firm Quadrature Capital