Citing “a substantial rise in trade barriers’’ but without mentioning Trump by name, the 189-country lender predicted that ...

Trump has upended global trade with a series of on-again, off-again tariff hikes that have increased the effective U.S.

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This would mark the slowest rate of global growth since 2008, aside from outright global recessions,” the World Bank said of its forecast.

Improved prospects for sales was the biggest factor pushing up the NFIB’s Optimism Index beyond its 51-year average.

In a decisive step toward strengthening Liberia's financial system against climate-related shocks, the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), with support from the World Bank, on Thursday, June 5, convened a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday forecast that weakening global growth due in part to trade turmoil will push global commodity prices down 12% in 2025 and another 5% in 2026 to the ...

The World Bank predicts global commodity prices will fall sharply in 2025 and 2026. Energy prices are expected to see the most significant decline. The World Bank cites sputtering global growth ...

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 ...