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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. economy is likely to grow just 1.4% this year, half the rate recorded in 2024, as a result of President Trump's ...