The Latest Breaking News from World Bank

Costa Ricans vote on Sunday for a new president in what looks primed to be a close contest between a former leader promising continuity and a pugnacious economist who could pull the country down an anti-establishment path.

Taliban’s increasingly repressive rule could lead to donor backlash at UN pledging conference on Thursday

World Bank is funding the National Hydrology Project

Low-income workers take on multiple jobs to survive as the economic crisis sees food, fuel and medicine costs surge.

The United Arab Emirates is hosting a United Nations-backed climate summit next week

Lebanese President Michel Aoun tweeted on Friday that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian assured him after their meeting in Beirut that Iran was ready to support Lebanon in all fields, "most notably in the provision of wheat". Lebanon bought the bulk of its wheat from Ukraine until Russia's invasion, and…

Sri Lanka will seek World Bank assistance to stave off a severe economic crisis in addition to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue plan to be discussed next month, two sources said.

Over the past 120 years, a Beirut bakery has survived civil war, Lebanon's financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. Fighting in Ukraine, disrupting food and energy supplies world-wide, may soon put it out of business.

VISAKHAPATNAM: Gone are the days of only conventional income from agriculture. Nearly 500 farmers of north coastal Andhra Pradesh are now reaping the dividends of carbon credits that they earned through the environment-friendly agroforestry practices. In fact, all these are small and marginal farmers, raising these plantations on degraded lands.