World Bank Warns of Energy Price Surge if Mideast War Spreads A new economic report predicted a year of weak growth and said the world faced a decade of “wasted opportunity.”
The Debt Problem Is Enormous, and the System for Fixing It Is Broken Economists offer alternatives to financial safeguards created when the U.S. was the pre-eminent superpower and climate change wasn’t on the agenda.
World Bank Warns Record Debt Burdens Haunt Developing Economies Surging interest rates and waning financing options threaten a “lost decade” for poor countries.
World Bank President Ajay Banga Addresses Climate Change Ajay Banga, who took over the top job in June, has prioritized global warming issues in his first months on the job.