As the legislative branch of government, parliaments stand as valued partners to the World Bank: they enact laws, debate and approve budgets and loans, shape and review development policies, and hold ...

World Bank Live is the World Bank's event streaming platform designed to engage global audiences in conversations about international development. The platform features high-level debates and events ...

The World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) provides scholarships to students and young researchers, contributing to the World Bank’s mission of forging new dynamic approaches to ...

a new underclass”, according to a top official from the World Bank. Financial turbulence intensified last September following the sub prime and housing crisis in the US, which had a domino ...

For nearly four decades, Axel van Trotsenburg has found ways to fund the aspirations of low- to middle-income countries. Axel van Trotsenburg knows money. He’s spent 36 years at the World Bank ...

In the process, the international financial community has come to think of the World Bank (official title: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as “Gene Black’s bank.” ...

The World Bank will launch its first ever debt-for-development swap within weeks, its Vice President and Treasurer Jorge Familiar told Reuters, as the Washington-based lender expands its toolkit to ...

build human capital to create more and better jobs” and rescue the region from what the World Bank official describes as the “persistence of low-cycle growth.” These initiatives are being ...

This figure included lending, along with other financial instruments such as grants and guarantees, a World Bank official told AFP by email. That financing assisted in "supporting efforts to end ...

Shares of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 500247 inched down 0.04% to 1,746.55 Indian rupees Friday, on what proved to be an ...

India's central bank continues to be in talks with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) but views the latter's proposal for supervisory and auditing powers over domestic clearing ...

Innovation Hub was launched in partnership with APIX, a Singapore-based leading global collaborative innovation platform for financial institutions and fintechs at the festival, being held 6-8.