A fresh World Bank report highlights the countries most exposed to job automation by AI. This offers insight into the ...

WASHINGTON, 8th August, 2026 (WAM) -- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a $100 million grant from the ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) has appointed Indonesia’s former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as a co-chair tasked with ...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today the Ethiopia First Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Development Policy Operation. This policy operation supports home-grown reforms that ...

Kenya is in talks for about $450 million of emergency financing from the World Bank to cushion the economy from the impact of the Iran war and potential weather shocks, according to people familiar ...

"AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and ​they should seize it," Indermit Gill, the World Bank's chief economist, said in a statement accompanying the report. Companies worldwide are ...

Finance Minister Mohammed Yisr Barnieh said that all World Bank grants provided to Syria so far are non-repayable and impose ...

Bungling World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24 billion bankrolling the battle against climate change, according to a bombshell report by a left-leaning charity group. An investigation by ...

The World Bank announced on Thursday that it was providing US$750 million in financial guarantees to Indonesia's largest ...

This week, world leaders and central bankers will convene in Washington, D.C., for the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Both the chaos coursing through the ...

The World Bank decided to remove quantitative targets for incorporating climate objectives into its financing, months after criticism from the US — its biggest shareholder — that it should get back to ...