A coalition of leading African civil society groups called on the World Bank to exit its investments in for-profit hospitals, ...

An unofficial ranking of the world's cleverest countries based on criteria including number of Nobel Prize nominations and ...

World Bank President Ajay Banga said boosting access to electricity is the key to unlocking the demographic dividend in the ...

The World Bank on Monday warned its Colombian employees against traveling to or from the United States after three staff ...

Policymakers around the globe should not react in haste to announcements by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, and ...

The project was supposed to be a boon for wildlife-based tourism in the East African country, but critics say it came “at an ...

Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — the cost-slashing body known as ...

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to remain ...

NGOs say the banks’ obligation to prevent and remedy harm “cannot be delegated.” The World Bank and Asian Development Bank ...

Foreign direct investment is flowing into the developing world at half the level of the early 2000s, the bank said. Globally, countries imposed five times as many new trade barriers last year as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank on Thursday warned that U.S. across-the-board tariffs of 10% could reduce already lackluster global economic growth of 2.7% in 2025 by 0.3 percentage point if ...