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  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
    Coronavirus
    World Bank’s pandemic bonds sink as coronavirus spreads

    Investors dump debt designed to pay out when developing nations face serious outbreaks

  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
    World Bank publishes controversial paper

    Research on aid and graft appears on website on Tuesday afternoon.

  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
    AnalysisFT Alphaville
    The World Bank paper at the centre of a controversy

    Departure of chief economist linked to research on the ties between aid and corruption. 

  • Monday, 17 February, 2020
    Markets
    Further reading

    Centuries of falling rates, Citeh, World Bank troubles, and more.   

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
    FTfmJohn Dizard
    Coronavirus strikes World Bank’s 2017 catastrophe bonds

    Originally scheduled to mature in July this year, they are teetering on the edge of default

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2020
    Tanzania
    World Bank delays vote on $500m Tanzania loan

    Decision follows activists’ request to postpone funding over equality concerns

  • Saturday, 25 January, 2020
    Tanzania
    Tanzanian activists ask World Bank to block $500m school programme

    Civil society leaders say project would be ‘slap in face’ for women in east African country

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
    Global economic growth
    World Bank gloomy in spite of easing US-China tensions

    Growth outlook downgrade comes with call for ‘sustained’ fall in policy uncertainty

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2019
    Emerging markets
    World Bank warns on $55tn emerging market debt pile

    Fastest and widest surge in borrowing poses risk should era of low interest rates end

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
    White House objects to $1bn World Bank loan for China

    US’s economic rivalry with Beijing spills over into multilateral institutions

  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    World Bank scales back $50m training project in Xinjiang

    Beijing faces criticism over claims of human rights abuses in the western region

  • Thursday, 24 October, 2019
    Global Economy
    Doing business in China becomes easier after cutting red tape

    Latin America ‘a sinking continent’ in competitiveness terms, World Bank warns

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    FT CollectionsGlobal Economy
    Policymakers and the global economy

    IMF, World Bank and European Council leaders meet at a time of worrying slowdown

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2019
    Martin Sandbu
    Policymakers have chance to boost global economy

    They can make up for self-inflicted mistakes that have worsened the global slowdown

  • Monday, 16 September, 2019
    Agricultural production
    World Bank calls for agricultural productivity drive to cut poverty

    Funding should be directed to R&D and helping farmers adopt new technologies, says report

  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
    Person in the News
    Kristalina Georgieva: a tenacious talent to lead the IMF

    The Bulgarian from the World Bank is set to manage the global lender of last resort

  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    Frank Vogl
    IMF and World Bank must get tough on corruption

    This is a particularly good time for a new approach as new leaders take charge at both institutions

  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    FT SeriesCash Trails
    Expatriate remittances targeted as source of finance

    Migrants’ money channelled into diaspora bonds and infrastructure investment

  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
    ESG investing
    Ebola outbreak fails to trigger World Bank pandemic bonds

    Key element of bond payout has not been activated despite 1,700 deaths in DRC

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    Gillian Tett
    The business case against Bretton Woods

    International financial institutions designed 75 years ago are no longer fit for purpose

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Bretton Woods at 75: global co-operation under threat

    Economic governance system established in 1944 is being undermined by protectionism and nationalism

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    ObituaryErnest Stern
    Ernest Stern, economist, 1933-2019

    A rare talent at the World Bank who never took stability for granted

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    Markets InsightMoritz Kraemer
    If UK baulks on EU bill, poor nations could suffer

    Reneging on £39bn payment may lead to downgrades of multilateral development banks

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    ESG investing
    Ebola escalation keeps ‘pandemic bonds’ in spotlight

    Instruments have been criticised for strict criteria on when affected nations receive payouts

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    Global trade
    World Bank chief laments trade slowdown

    David Malpass stops short of rebuking White House for protectionist policies

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