The World Bank is calling for $25 billion in further COVID-19 emergency financing to help the world's poorest countries grapple with the massive challenges of the global pandemic, the Bank's president ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday urged the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to work judiciously within their existing resources to fight the coronavirus pandemic and urged ...

The World Bank-backed Mwinda Fund, which could become Africa’s second-largest financial facility for off-grid power projects, expects to start disbursing money in the Democratic Republic of Congo in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7, 2025 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a 5-year British pound sterling (GBP) benchmark maturing in October ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Thursday it would resume funding to Uganda, nearly two years after the global lender suspended new financing to the country in response to an anti-LGBT law ...

The World Bank reverses its decades-old stance, enabling nuclear funding to meet the soaring energy demand. The move boosts U.S. nuclear exports, challenging Chinese and Russian influence in global ...

The World Bank is ending its long-standing ban on providing funding for nuclear energy projects - and will be open to supporting efforts to extend the life of existing reactors and accelerate the ...

Donald Trump is not a one-world-order guy. And he’s definitely not a Globalist. He rightly believes that every decision in Washington should be about putting America first. That’s the populist theme ...

The establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) development bank would give 10 Eurasian countries an ...

Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank's approach to development for many decades. From the bank's early years in the ...

World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi outlined the thinking behind the change in policy at a joint event in Paris. Hear ...