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World Bank

August 2024

  • World Bank white-on-blue 'globe' logo

    World Bank warns 108 countries risk being stuck in ‘middle-income trap’

    Too many nations, including China and India, are relying on outmoded strategies to become advanced economies, says report

June 2024

  • A ship loaded with cars for export leaves the port of Yantai, Shandong Province, China

    Protectionism is slowing growth and entrenching poverty, says World Bank

  • Stationary engineless boats lie idle on a dry inland lake in Africa

    Debt payments by countries most vulnerable to climate crisis soar

May 2024

  • Kristalina Georgieva, Janet Yellen, Chrystia Freeland and Christine Lagarde against a backdrop of a lake and mountain

    Hopes grow of G7 deal to support Ukraine with $300bn in frozen Russian assets

  • Picture of Winnie Byanyima sitting in front of red background with her hands raised to her face, talking into a microphone

    World Bank and IMF can press Ghana to rethink ‘punitive’ LGBTQ law, charities say

April 2024

  • A man and a woman walk past a billboard with an illustration showing missiles taking off from a stylised 3D relief map of Iran

    Oil price could exceed $100 a barrel if Middle East conflict worsens, World Bank warns

  • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    The Guardian view on globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

  • A family of African elephants crossing a dirt road, with a safari jeep in background.

    World Bank suspends Tanzania tourism funding after claims of killings and evictions

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Most difficult global outlook since 1930s heralds end of US-led world order

    Larry Elliott

  • World Bank official calls for shake-up of G20 debt relief scheme

  • Billions more in overseas aid needed to avert climate disaster, say economists

  • Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns

  • Economics viewpoint
    At last G20 is showing how to finance an assault on poverty

    Larry Elliott

  • Observer business agenda
    Are the octogenarian IMF and World Bank sprightly enough for the job?

  • World Bank must take ‘quantum leap’ to tackle climate crisis, UN expert says

  • World Bank’s funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect

March 2024

  • People crowd, mostly children, together holding buckets to try to collect food at a distribution centre

    World Bank report finds imminent risk of catastrophic famine in Gaza Strip

    Findings come as UN secretary general calls on Israel to give unconditional access to Gaza for aid relief
  • Posed by models Asian Businesswoman Leading Meeting At Boardroom Table

    We must address the shocking gender gap at global financial institutions

    Letter: Eeshani Kandpal on the dismal lack of women leaders in some of the world’s important organisations
  • Indian women in the ladies compartment of a train on their way to work in Mumbai, India

    No equality for working women in any country in the world, study reveals

    Global gender gap is far bigger than previously thought, as annual World Bank report takes childcare and safety issues into account for first time

February 2024

  • People line up outside a bakery in Khartoum, Sudan

    China needs to do more on ‘silent crisis’ of debt, says World Bank official

    Beijing must be more ready to support countries facing distress, says deputy chief economist
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