A high-powered Liberian government delegation, coordinated by Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, on Wednesday held what was described as productive discussions with a ...

The alleged abuse occurred in separate incidents in November 2023, February 2023, and as recently as July 2025.

International financial experts have significantly downgraded economic projections for both America and the world, with the ...

Israel gave final approval for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two ...

The World Bank is an international development organization owned by 189 countries. Its role is to reduce poverty by lending money to the governments of its poorer members to improve their economies ...

Under pressure from world leaders, development experts and shareholders, the bank opens its spring meeting on Monday, poised for big changes. By David Gelles and Alan Rappeport Mr. Gelles writes ...

In 2013, the bank set a goal to end extreme poverty, experienced by people living on $2.15 or less per day, by 2030. World Bank officials have since said that the lender will not succeed in that ...

World Bank president David Malpass announced Wednesday he is quitting, after sharp criticism from Treasury Secretary Yellen and Biden' climate adviser John F. Kerry over climate policies.

The World Bank is in a unique position to help developing countries prepare for climate change. Here are two things critics say it could do better, and one they say it shouldn’t do at all.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrives to a news conference during the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2022.