Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine ...

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 ...

As a growing number of countries look to strengthen their domestic energy production, meet baseload power generation needs, and manage low-carbon climate goals, they’re increasingly looking to nuclear ...

The World Bank has taken its first step since ending its ban on funding nuclear energy projects by partnering with the International Atomic Energy Agency to support countries that choose to include ...

June 25 (UPI) --The World Bank on Wednesday announced a $1.3 billion investment in projects in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. The costliest of the three projects will happen in Iraq, as the World Bank's ...

The Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) is a landmark collaboration between the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, designed to deepen the two institutions’ collaboration on cofinanced public ...

The World Bank and other multilateral development banks recently have begun reconsidering their self-imposed restrictions on financing fossil fuel projects. This change is being prompted in part by ...

Senior figures at the World Bank have said it should consider changing its lending policy to include nuclear energy projects. (Image: World Bank) Ahead of the organisation's recent Spring meetings, ...

The nuclear renaissance has come to the World Bank, but obstacles still remain with regard to funding and liabilities. The World Bank recently announced that it is lifting its decades-long ban on ...

For developing economies such as India, the report highlighted the importance of strengthening productivity and job creation. It said per capita income growth in developing economies is projected at 3 ...