The alleged abuse occurred in separate incidents in November 2023, February 2023, and as recently as July 2025.

International financial experts have significantly downgraded economic projections for both America and the world, with the ...

UN Watch is calling on the World Bank to fire senior economist Massimiliano Cali over social media posts that the ...

Early 2025 saw food prices in Jordan on the rise. The trend has been straining household budgets and could be exacerbated by ...

The World Bank has played a leading role in promoting adaptive social protection, helping countries build systems to better ...

The World Bank’s international debt report from 2024 shows that Beijing currently owes the body $15.4 billion from a vast web of World Bank loans that China was able to secure at low rates.

Joint Statement of the IMF Managing Director and of the World Bank President WASHINGTON, September 7, 2023 —Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Ajay Banga, ...

The World Bank (and the IMF) should get credit for increasing their lending to the world's poorest countries during the pandemic. But without additional action, net flows to developing economies ...

Integrating Fast Payment Systems (FPS) with other components of DPI can streamline the digital financial ecosystem and drive ...

In 2013, the bank set a goal to end extreme poverty, experienced by people living on $2.15 or less per day, by 2030. World Bank officials have since said that the lender will not succeed in that ...

The World Bank is an international development organization owned by 189 countries. Its role is to reduce poverty by lending money to the governments of its poorer members to improve their economies ...

Israel gave final approval for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two ...