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The World Bank is considering securitizing some of the projects it’s backing to attract more private funding as it prepares ...
RIYADH, December 3, 2024 – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the World Bank Group signed an agreement today to establish a Knowledge Hub in Riyadh to drive the global exchange of ideas, experiences, and ...
NAIROBI, February 19, 2025 — A new report by World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Bank, with contributions from the African Development Bank (AfDB), provides one of the most comprehensive ...
The World Bank's private investment arm is backing the rush into digital data in Africa with a $100 million investment in regional data centre developer and operator Raxio Group, funding centres ...
The World Bank said the U.S. economy in 2025 will grow 1.4 percent, 0.9 percentage points slower than its January forecast. It also called for all nations to reduce tariffs.
The World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report, published Tuesday, paints a bleak picture of the world economy over the first seven years of the 2020s—although it stopped short of ...
A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 26, 2025, Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: World Bank’s Pivot to Climate May Cause Friction With Trump Policies.