Building on existing measures that have positioned the city as a leader in 22 World Bank business environment indicators, ...

Risk is all around us, an inherent part of life. And in the world of development, there are also risks, including war, civil disturbance and expropriation. Junaid Kamal Ahmad: When Egypt did in fact ...

The World Bank is considering securitizing some of the projects it’s backing to attract more private funding as it prepares to roll out a series of debt-for-development swaps, President Ajay Banga ...

Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have made loan disbursements to ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

PARIS, June 26, 2025—The World Bank Group and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sealed an agreement today to work together to support the safe, secure and responsible use of nuclear energy ...

The World Bank Group’s Annual Conference on Development Economics—ABCDE—is a 36-year-old forum to stimulate an exchange of ideas between leaders in global ...

The I.M.F. and World Bank are holding their spring meetings as President Trump’s trade war upends the global economy. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington Global economic leaders are gathering ...