Washington, D.C., October 15, 2024 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a 10-year GBP-denominated benchmark bond that matures in October ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 9, 2025 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today priced a 10-year euro-denominated benchmark bond maturing in January ...

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo has been selected as a 2026 World Bank Group Africa Fellow, joining the Development Economics Research ...

The World Bank has commended Gombe State Government for its outstanding performance and strong commitment to the effective implementation of World Bank-supported development projects, describing the ...

By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, Mar. 17, GNA – Mr Paschal Donohoe, Managing Director of the World Bank Group, has called for urgent reforms in education and skills systems to address mismatches with labour ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The World Bank will launch its first ever debt-for-development swap within weeks, its Vice President and Treasurer Jorge Familiar told Reuters, as the Washington-based ...

Impoverished countries do not have much in common. Half the population of Niger, a landlocked African nation beset by military coups, live in extreme poverty, eight in ten people have no access to ...

of bonds backed by loans it gave companies across the developing world, part of its efforts to lure more institutional investors to regions where borrowers have a harder time raising cash. The ...

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The Trump administration cannot determine the mission of the World Bank because the global lender's goals are based on agreement by many countries, Svenja Schulze, ...