The decision, a major reversal, could help poorer nations industrialize, cut planet-warming emissions and boost U.S.

The World Bank is lifting its decades-long ban on financing nuclear energy, in a policy shift aimed at accelerating ...

Myanmar's beleaguered economy is expected to contract by 2.5 percent in the 2025/26 fiscal year largely due to the ...

The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as ...

The world’s largest economy is expected to grow by just 1.4% in 2025, a sharp deceleration from the 2.8% expansion recorded ...

The World Bank’s board lifted its ban on supporting nuclear power, and is discussing whether to fund natural exploration and ...

Myanmar’s economy is headed for its worst performance since the pandemic as the strife-torn country reels from the impact of ...

A new report by the World Bank claims global economic growth could slow to its weakest level since the 1960s. The report ...

The Pentagon estimated the troop deployment to L.A. will cost $134 million. The World Bank called for lower, equitable ...

Citing “a substantial rise in trade barriers’’ but without mentioning Trump by name, the 189-country lender predicted that ...

The World Bank says tariffs will hurt global growth, estimating that the trade war will shave almost half a percentage point ...

Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help ...