The Latest Breaking News from World Bank

The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria

In July 1944, with war still raging in Europe and the Pacific, 730 delegates from 44 countries gathered at the Mount Washington, a grand hotel built at the turn of the century in New Hampshire. They were on the edge of a little town called Carroll, surrounded by a national…

International cooperation that allowed poorest countries to close gap with wealthiest has fractured, says report

Renault CEO Luca de Meo was critical of Volkswagen after talks over a joint affordable EV imploded.

Using a long-handled net, Ronnel Narvas scoops up discarded plastic soft drink bottles, shopping bags and palm-sized sachets as he wades through a foul-smelling tributary in the Philippine capital Manila.

Foreign ministers confident of agreement to use bank assets as security for Ukraine reconstruction loan

The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis

Charities and campaign groups are calling on bodies to say they may stop funding country if legislation comes into effect

Increase in cost of crude could drive inflation up and force central banks to keep interest rates high