To date, the World Bank has supported over US$3 billion worth of projects in Jordan and Lebanon to help refugees and host communities. These projects support jobs and economic opportunities, health, ...

The World Bank is considering securitizing some of the projects it’s backing to attract more private funding as it prepares to roll out a series of debt-for-development swaps, President Ajay Banga ...

The World Bank is ending its long-standing ban on providing funding for nuclear energy projects - and will be open to supporting efforts to extend the life of existing reactors and accelerate the ...

June 25 (UPI) --The World Bank on Wednesday announced a $1.3 billion investment in projects in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. The costliest of the three projects will happen in Iraq, as the World Bank's ...

Washington DC, July 8, 2025 – The World Bank Group published a new report to inform industry stakeholders about Viet Nam’s current policies and regulatory landscape. The report also provides targeted ...

As a growing number of countries look to strengthen their domestic energy production, meet baseload power generation needs, and manage low-carbon climate goals, they’re increasingly looking to nuclear ...

The World Bank has taken its first step since ending its ban on funding nuclear energy projects by partnering with the International Atomic Energy Agency to support countries that choose to include ...

The Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) is a landmark collaboration between the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, designed to deepen the two institutions’ collaboration on cofinanced public ...

About 45 million hectares of landscapes and seascapes have been brought under enhanced conservation or management through active projects in the World Bank Group (WBG) portfolio in fiscal year 2024 ...

Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine ...