WASHINGTON, January 9, 2025—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on January 8 approved changes to the structure of the World Bank’s Accountability Mechanism (AM).These changes are aimed at ...

The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are ...

For the fiscal year 2024, the World Bank distributed $36.902 billion in IBRD loans, $23.094 billion in IDA credits, and $8.101 billion in IDA grants. The IBRD loans money to creditworthy countries.

The World Bank’s Treasury currently finds the readiest market for its bonds in the 5-to-10-year maturities. It does issue at longer tenors, ... Such a funding structure, ...