The countries most affected by climate change are poor, rely heavily on agriculture for income, and are vulnerable to extreme ...

Climate change and conflict are major drivers of poverty in the affected countries. The World Bank published a new study late ...

Project 2025’s call for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Bank would be a strategic mistake, as it would allow America’s competitors to gain a historic victory. The World Bank needs ...

Foreign direct investment is flowing into the developing world at half the level of the early 2000s, the bank said. Globally, countries imposed five times as many new trade barriers last year as ...

Nearly half the world’s extreme poor live in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence, and the spillover effects place all countries at risk. The World Bank supports conflict-sensitive, ...

President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United ...

More than a year late, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has finally submitted its response to an ...

From Jerusalem to Kyiv to London to Ottawa, his election victory and the anticipation of a new Trump agenda changed the calculations of world leaders - with some far-reaching consequences. In the lead ...

As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year’s COP30 global ...