Biodiversity underpins the provision of critical ecosystem services, but it is being lost at an unprecedented rate and ...

This Poverty Assessment provides a comprehensive update on poverty in the Palestinian territories, drawing on insights from ...

The World Bank will give Uganda over $2 billion in new financing in the next three financial years to fund economic ...

Economic anxiety persisted at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington, D.C., last week, but some argued that the global ...

France will keep pressing the World Bank to maintain its climate finance agenda despite the Trump administration's pressure ...

In Nashtifan, Iran, vertical-axis windmills made of clay, straw, and wood have milled grain for nearly 1,000 years. Dating back to between 700 and 900 CE, these structures represent the earliest ...

WASHINGTON, September 30, 2025 — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a new multi-phase 10-year program to support Peru in strengthening wastewater management, advancing a circular ...

The World Bank Group has launched the Africa Skills for Jobs Policy Academy Program, the cornerstone of “growth, competitiveness, and opportunity.” The program, under a partnership with the Government ...

A Czech Republic-led effort gathers munitions for Kyiv from around the world, but an opposition party expected to win elections there has vowed to drop it. By Lara Jakes Reporting from Prague For more ...

Microsoft says it has stopped providing some of its cloud and AI services to Israel's Ministry of Defense following a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper, which alleged Israel used the services to ...