The World Bank Group and the African Development Bank issued the following joint statement in response to the situation in the Cote d’Ivoire: The African Development...
The World Bank (WB) today announces the immediate disbursement of US$150 million to support Colombia in the face of the humanitarian emergency the country’s worst rainy...
The World Bank Board today approved a credit of US$38 million to the Government of Ghana for implementation of an Oil and Gas Capacity Building Project....
The World Bank (WB) Board of Directors approved three projects for Argentina totaling US$1.061 billion. Both Great North projects, Water and Infrastructure, will generate opportunities for...
The Global Environment Facility, the World Bank, and IUCN today announced they had established the Save Our Species (SOS) initiative with more than $US10 million in...
China’s growth has moderated somewhat to a still healthy pace, with a shifting composition, according to the World Bank’s latest China Quarterly Update released today. The...
WASHINGTON DC, NOVEMBER 9, 2010 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$74.7 million loan to support a program designed by the Honduran...
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick and Singapore Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam today joined senior public and private sector leaders from Asia to launch...
In a history-making move this week, Bangladesh, Niger and Tajikistan were awarded a total of $270 million for first-of-a-kind country-wide plans for resilience against climate impacts....
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$150 million loan today for the Dominican Republic to support the introduction of a results-based accountability system...
In a significant trend to rebalance energy services toward clean technology, twenty developing countries are investing in large-scale renewables, particularly solar, wind and geothermal services, as...