JOHANNESBURG, July 21 (Reuters) - South Africa has secured a $1.5 billion World Bank loan to support reforms aimed at easing ...

I N JUNE 2023 the world’s biggest development bank seemed to be undergoing a transformation. At a summit in Paris, the president of the World Bank, which for 70 years had focuse ...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - The World Bank Group said on Monday it will "retire" its previous goal to devote 45% of its annual lending resources to projects with climate ...

SA secured a $1.5 billion World Bank loan to upgrade infrastructure, with reforms in electricity and transport expected to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7, 2025 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a 5-year British pound sterling (GBP) benchmark maturing in October ...

In a significant move to strengthen global public asset management frameworks, the World Bank’s Executive Directors approved the relaunch of the World Bank Reserve Advisory and Management Partnership ...

By Marc Jones and Simon Jessop LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) - Multilateral development banks committed a record $162.5 billion ...

The World Bank’s loan-backed bond program has surpassed the $1 billion mark after the lender raised another $509 million for a program aimed at supporting job creation in developing nations.

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, July 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria has launched a $552 million basic education programme co-financed by the ...

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 ...

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 group of allied countries want to use the same kind of government-backed financing that helped rebuild Eastern Europe after ...