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Could the US pull out of the World Bank? Unlikely — but not impossible
Amid setbacks in international development under the Trump administration, could the World Bank be next? While experts deem ...
S&P Global warns of "unprecedented" U.S. World Bank withdrawal risk
S&P Global completed the list of top credit rating agencies to warn that an "unprecedented" U.S. withdrawal from the World ...
World Bank trims Thailand's 2025 growth outlook
Thailand’s economy is expected to grow 2.9% this year, the World Bank said on Friday, down slightly from 3.0% projected in ...
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World Bank says the global is economy is growing steadily, but not fast enough to help ease poverty
It just isn’t growing fast enough to bring relief to the world’s poorest, the World Bank said Thursday in its latest assessment of the global economy. The bank expects the world economy to ...
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Steady global economic growth leaves poorest nations behind, World Bank says
Foreign direct investment is flowing into the developing world at half the level of the early 2000s, the bank said. Globally, countries imposed five times as many new trade barriers last year as ...
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Inside a New Plan to Bring Electricity to 300 Million in Africa
The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.” Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called ...
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World Bank Expands Support to Electrify Rural Eswatini, Reaching 200,000 People [press release]
A new World Bank financed project is helping set Eswatini on the path to universal energy access by 2030. The Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT) project for ...