The Latest Breaking News from the World Bank

While Vietnam remains a developing country, it boasts one of the best education systems in the world. According to data from the World Bank, Vietnamese students outperform not only their peers in nearby Malaysia and Thailand, but also those in wealthier countries such as Britain and Canada. Vietnamese students’ top-notch…

The U.S. market—and seafood processors’ freezers—are overflowing with cheap farm-raised imports. Words and photos by Paula Levihn-Coon.

Governments draw up blueprint for fund to be administered at first by World Bank after tense Abu Dhabi talks

Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday in Abu Dhabi, with participants agreeing that the World Bank would temporarily oversee the fund for the next four years

World leaders will reconvene in Abu Dhabi before UAE’s Cop28 after talks broke down two weeks ago

Artificial intelligence is changing the world – and one of the main areas it will affect in the short-to-medium term is the workforce.

To adapt to the threats developing countries are facing from climate change, the United Nations says they'll need at least 10 times more money than the public funding they received in 2021.

The World Bank says oil prices could be pushed into “uncharted waters” if the violence between Israel and Hamas intensifies

Escalation of Israel-Hamas war into Middle East-wide conflict would disrupt oil supplies and stoke food prices, says Bank