The World Bank’s clients are mostly responding to the effects of climate change and have done little to cause it, while rich countries have done a miserable job financing the type of adaptation ...

It’s a high-stakes game for the World Bank, which must balance previous commitments to put nearly half of its financing toward climate initiatives while avoiding stoking Trump’s anger.

A decade after the World Bank mounted its first anticorruption campaign, the impact appears to have been minimal. Paul Wolfowitz, the bank’s new president, is seeking to reinvigorate the effort.

The Royal Textile Academy, with the sponsorship from the World Bank Office in Bhutan has organized a Competition, titled ‘From Pixel to Fabrics: Digital Design in Traditional Weaving’. The objectives ...

In keeping up with the rapid growth in mobile usage worldwide, the World Bank just relaunched the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)—its open access portal to its publications and research—on an upgraded ...

The World Bank logo is seen at the 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo.

The bank also lopped 0.4 percentage points off its forecast for global growth this year. It now expects the world economy to expand just 2.3% in 2025, down from 2.8% in 2024.

The atrium at the World Bank’s headquarters soars 12 stories above H Street NW in downtown Washington, DC. Ordinarily, a walker’s footsteps echo through it, and the sheer vastness of the hall ...

[1/2] The World Bank logo is seen at the 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2023.

It’s safe to say the bunny has achieved design icon status. For one thing, it hasn’t changed since its conception in 1953—the same year Hefner, in his first editor's letter, described ...

And another red flag with this offer: When you click on the World Bank logo, it takes a site that is not the official website for the World Bank. Bottom line: We can Verify, no, the World Bank is ...

The Bank of England began circulating its new £50 bank notes featuring World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on Wednesday, which would have been the pioneering math genius’ 109th birthday. Often ...