Nigeria's debt to the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) has risen to $18.2 billion in 2024, up from $16.5 billion in 2025.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

UN Watch is calling on the World Bank to fire senior economist Massimiliano Cali over social media posts that the ...

Early 2025 saw food prices in Jordan on the rise. The trend has been straining household budgets and could be exacerbated by ...

The World Bank Group has highlighted Ghana’s current political stability as a critical opportunity for the Mahama-led ...

The World Bank has noted that despite the expansion of Ghana’s economy, access to jobs remains a significant challenge for ...

The World Bank said on Friday it had approved a $650 million loan to support the Istanbul Resilience Project, an investment ...

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 ...

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.

Sri Lanka's economy will grow by 4.5% this year, the central bank said in a monetary policy report on Friday, despite some risks to the island nation's recovery from U.S. tariffs.