World Bank

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.

A study shows that World Bank aid is vulnerable to geopolitical influence.

The proposed bill slashes more than half a billion dollars, or almost half of U.S. funding for the organization.

A new report from Human Rights Watch and Uzbek activists alleges the continued use of forced and child labor in harvesting the Central Asian country’s cotton crop.

The World Bank rival says it will only fund environmentally-friendly projects.

That doesn’t bode well for Greece, which appears to be hurtling toward another default.

Global leadership does not come for free.

John Norris told Foreign Policy readers that the Istanbul conference would be irrelevant. It wasn’t.

The good doctor Kim is out to salvage the bank's global relevance. But his radical reforms have critics calling for his head.