The World Bank is facing a formal complaint regarding its financing of the Rogun Dam project in Tajikistan, with allegations of inadequate assessment of environmental and socio-economic risks.

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank is likely to approve additional financing ... to Floods and Other Climate Disasters”—by enhancing flood resilience through integrated risk management and ...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - World Bank President ... The global development bank, which lends at low rates to help countries build everything from railroads to flood barriers, announced ...

The World Bank has pledged to increase Ghana’s renewable energy to ensure accessible, low emission, reliable and affordable ...

LAHORE: A three-member delegation of World Bank, headed by its Regional Director for Infrastructure in South Asia Pankaj Gupta, visited under-construction 1530 MW-Tarbela 5th Extension Hydropower ...

WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of global finance leaders will descend on Washington this week, each with a singular mission: Who can I talk with to cut a trade deal? The semi-annual ...

The bank’s messaging on climate represents a delicate balancing act between the institution and the U.S., its largest shareholder. The World Bank has softened its once-vocal cheerleading for ...

With the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund coming up next week, we discuss what the gathering will mean for the global development sector. It’s the first World ...

Ahead of its annual Spring Meetings alongside the IMF, we looked into how the World Bank spent nearly $1.7 billion on consultant services. As we have previously reported on the World Bank’s ...

The men and women who run the global economy will arrive in Washington this week for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank with one goal: get out of town without ...

South Africa, with the help of the World Bank, has a $3 billion (R55 billion) plan to reverse the decline in services and infrastructure in eight of its biggest cities. It will use a $1 billion loan ...

The World Bank has expressed concern over Nigeria’s poor statistical performance, noting that the country is lagging behind its aspirational peers such as Mexico, Colombia, South Africa and Brazil.