World Bank Group President Ajay Banga addressed the press at the 2025 Spring Meetings Opening Press Conference. “We're trying to change things here and look to deploy proven tools to unlock growth, to ...

Engineer Felchesmi Jossen Mramba is the permanent secretary of the ministry of energy, United Republic of Tanzania. Read more ...

Leaders from government, the private sector and civil society are gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), to accelerate action on the climate crisis. See below ...

Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department, where he oversees the IMF’s operations and engagement with 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Before taking up his current position ...

During the event, Ajay Banga addressed the interconnected challenges facing the world today, and the concrete ways the World Bank has delivered to better tackle the toughest challenges facing ...

Dan Murphy is a globally renowned CNBC Anchor and Correspondent based in the United Arab Emirates, reporting on business, markets, economics and geopolitics from across the region of the Middle East.

Carla Alexandra Oreste do Rosário Fernandes Louveira is the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance of Mozambique. She is responsible for overseeing the fiscal policy, public debt management, financial ...

Watch a fireside chat with World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on their respective institutional goals going into COP28 in ...

The Law, Justice and Development Week – LJD Week – is an annual conference organized by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. This year's theme is "Partnering for Impact: Mobilizing the Private ...

Wendy Cunningham is a Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Human Capital Project. During her 20 years at the World Bank, Wendy has carried out research and provided operational support on issues related ...