2025 Growth Forecasts Cut for 70 Percent of Economies WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025 — Heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty are expected to drive global growth down this year to its slowest ...

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 ...

Donor countries have pledged a record $100 billion three-year replenishment of the World Bank's fund for the poorest nations, providing a vital lifeline for their struggles against crushing debts ...

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 is committing $1 billion to help the Democratic Republic of Congo prepare for the development of the next stage of the Grand Inga hydropower complex, which could be the world's ...

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.