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World Bank to end ban on nuclear energy projects, still debating upstream gas
The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as ...
New World’s $11 Billion Refinancing Gambit Must Get 100% Support
As distressed Hong Kong builder New World Development Co. gathers more support from banks for its targeted HK$87.5 billion ...
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World Bank ends ban on funding nuclear energy
The World Bank is ending its long-standing ban on providing funding for nuclear energy projects - and will be open to ...
Can this former CEO fix the World Bank and solve the world’s climate finance and debt crises as the institution’s next president?
The job of leading that reform now falls to Ajay Banga, an Indian American businessman and former CEO of Mastercard who was nominated by President Joe Biden to replace resigning World Bank President ...
World Bank, IFC approve $700 million loan for Pakistan's Reko Diq project
IFC and World Bank approve $700 million loan for Pakistan's Reko Diq mining project, boosting country's resource development ...
World Bank lifts ban on funding nuclear energy in boost to industry
The World Bank is lifting its decades-long ban on financing nuclear energy, in a policy shift aimed at accelerating ...
Earthquake worsens Myanmar's economic decline, World Bank says
Myanmar's beleaguered economy is expected to contract by 2.5 percent in the 2025/26 fiscal year largely due to the ...
Tracking Trump: L.A. troop deployment to cost $134 million; the World Bank calls for reduced tariffs; Hegseth gets grilled; and more
The Pentagon estimated the troop deployment to L.A. will cost $134 million. The World Bank called for lower, equitable ...