A fresh World Bank report highlights the countries most exposed to job automation by AI. This offers insight into the ...

Relatively simple AI tools can help developing economies boost economic growth, but they risk becoming dependent on the U.S.

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2025—The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today $194 million for two projects to enhance educational opportunities for children and boost water security in ...

The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Thailand jointly proclaimed Thailand's readiness to host the "2026 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group". This premier ...

"AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and ​they should seize it," Indermit Gill, the World Bank's chief economist, said in a statement accompanying the report. Companies worldwide are ...

Kenya is in talks for about $450 million of emergency financing from the World Bank to cushion the economy from the impact of the Iran war and potential weather shocks, according to people familiar ...

Bungling World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24 billion bankrolling the battle against climate change, according to a bombshell report by a left-leaning charity group. An investigation by ...

A new World Bank report says developing countries such as India stand to gain significantly from AI, with workers here likely ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) has appointed Indonesia’s former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as a co-chair tasked with ...

Report says 47 percent of physical damage from pair of earthquakes impacted residential buildings.

The World Bank decided to remove quantitative targets for incorporating climate objectives into its financing, months after criticism from the US — its biggest shareholder — that it should get back to ...