Trade must be part of the solution to end plastic pollution – a global problem which disproportionately affects developing ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and ...

The World Bank has maintained its focus on climate change and gender equality issues in the Pacific, managing director of ...

Global economic growth is on track for its weakest decade since the 1960s, according to a new analysis by the World Bank, which cites President Donald Trump’s trade war as a major factor ...

World Bank President Ajay Banga – a holdover from the Biden Administration – is obsessed with climate change and has been a relentless advocate for what so-called “climate finance ...

The World Bank, created in 1944 to rebuild postwar Europe, is the world’s largest multilateral lender. It funds a range of projects for poor countries and emerging economies, such as the ...

The World Bank and other multilateral banks have been pressing for years to improve lending transparency. The proportion of low-income countries reporting some debt data is now above 75%, up from ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 13, 2025, Section B, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: World Bank to Lift Its Ban On Funding Nuclear Power.