Asia’s industrial sector is home to a $1.7 trillion clean investment opportunity, according to a new World Bank analysis – and doing so could cut the equivalent of 16% of global carbon emissions in ...

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 suspended its $350 million grant for the Rogun Dam, citing unresolved concerns over debt sustainability and the dam’s commercial viability. Environmental groups warn the project could ...

EXCLUSIVE — A United Nations watchdog organization is calling on the World Bank to terminate the employment of its Senior Country Economist in Tunisia, Massimiliano Cali. U.N. Watch Executive Director ...

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 ...

The World Bank Group with other global development and financial partners is partnering with Nigeria to deliver a landmark 90,000-kilometre fibre-optic cable project aimed at transforming the ...

Mozambique won World Bank backing for its plan to build Southern Africa’s biggest hydropower plant in half a century. The lender plans to provide debt and equity funding as well as risk guarantees and ...

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2025—The World Bank is strengthening its procurement requirements to help address the jobs challenge in developing countries by requiring companies working on World Bank-funded ...

Global Finance announces its selections for the World’s Best Banks 2025, including its honoree for the World’s Best Consumer Bank, which is being revealed here for the first time. The 2025 World’s ...

The World Bank has outlined a three-point framework to create conditions for growth, warning that widening fiscal and external deficits threaten growth, investor confidence and access to future ...

Jenius Bank is serving as the title sponsor for the 2025 Pickleball World Championships. Jenius Bank, the digital banking division of SMBC Manubank, is aiming to net potential customers through ...

The World Bank has announced the appointment of Mathew Verghis as its new Country Director for Nigeria, effective July 1, 2025. Verghis takes over from Dr. Ndiame Diop, who has assumed a new role ...