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Ukraine will receive a $50 million grant as part of a World Bank project aimed at restoring the country's agricultural sector ...
Morocco’s Gross National Income per capita reached $3,760 in 2024, keeping the country in the lower-middle-income category, ...
The World Bank said on Monday that Syria’s gross domestic product is expected to grow modestly by 1% in 2025, following a ...
The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are ...
President Donald Trump’s trade wars are expected to slash economic growth this year in the United States and around the world ...
The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast for 2025 by four-tenths of a percentage point to 2.3%, saying that higher tariffs and heightened uncertainty posed a "significant headwind" ...
The World Bank says tariffs will hurt global growth, estimating that the trade war will shave almost half a percentage point ...
Global economic growth is on track for its weakest decade since the 1960s, according to a new analysis by the World Bank, which cites President Donald Trump’s trade war as a major factor ...
The World Bank is in a unique position to help developing countries prepare for climate change. Here are two things critics say it could do better, and one they say it shouldn’t do at all.
Under pressure from world leaders, development experts and shareholders, the bank opens its spring meeting on Monday, poised for big changes. By David Gelles and Alan Rappeport Mr. Gelles writes ...
World Bank President David Malpass sparked a furor last fall when he refused to say whether he accepted that the burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet.
The World Bank said on Monday it expected Syria’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow modestly by 1% in 2025, following a ...