But last week, it seemed like business as usual, as leaders from the World Bank Group’s Africa regional leadership team gathered for meetings in Silicon Valley with groups like ride-sharing ...

What is the price of U.S. participation in the World Bank? We look at the hot-button issues ... on climate change to the detriment of things like poverty and disease eradication.

According to these reports, Oxfam -- the British NGO -- found that a huge chunk of the World Bank's spending on climate change-related issues was "missing." Thank heavens for fact-checkers like ...

The new World Bank report An EPIC Response: Innovative Governance for Flood and Drought Risk Management presents a framework to manage the growing risks of floods and droughts in a changed climate.

The IMF is structured like a credit fund. Together, they provide different types of financial lending and financing support. The number of countries where the World Bank operates. Since its ...

FEATURING: Franziska Ohnsorge, Manager of the Prospects Group, World Bank; Marcello Estevão, Global Director of the World Bank Group's Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice; and Enrique ...

What does the World Bank do for developing countries? Many developing countries seem risky to private investors because of economic or political instability. Richer member countries guarantee that ...

He wants the bank to focus more tightly on promoting economic growth and to lend less to its richer borrowers, especially China. What does the World Bank do? Too much, according to the man who now ...