World Bank

Rather than antagonizing political opponents and geopolitical rivals, the U.S. government should entrust infrastructure development to the World Bank—and fund it generously.

Europe is ramping up its use of the dirtiest fuels—but keeps pressing Africa to stick to draconian green goals.

Rich donor countries are working to deprioritize poverty reduction and economic development in the global south.

The existing sanctions regime on Taliban leaders makes it hard for the world to help the Afghan people.

Biden’s sacking of Trump appointees at international financial institutions has left a vacuum.

Reliance on arbitrary metrics, like a $1.90-a-day bar for poverty, masks huge and growing inequality in the world.

U.S. ambassador considers resigning over the issue, which could harm U.S. anti-terrorism mission and aid programs there, officials say.

A school supported by the $50 million loan purchased barbed wire, gas launchers, and body armor.

World Bank chief economist Pinelopi Goldberg says equality can’t be an afterthought in plans for economic growth.

How Washington can beat Beijing’s global influence campaign.

Trump taps a critic of the world’s biggest development bank to be its next president.

Unless would-be migrants can build lives with dignity—which poorly paid, export-oriented jobs do not provide—they will continue to seek ways to move on.

The next president of the world’s largest development organization needs to chart a new direction for a new era.

Ghost offices on the small island provide legal but questionable means of siphoning tax dollars away from poor countries and into the pockets of the global elite.

They are among the institution's most powerful tools — heed not the critics.

Greece’s prolonged austerity has given rise to a movement of middle-class anarchism.

The Trump administration wants to dismantle another Obama-era development program.

The multilateral lender had somehow avoided the president’s anti-globalist ire. No longer.