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Last updated: October 2026
The World Bank is the world's largest multilateral development lender — financing roads, dams, schools, and health systems across the developing world. Headquartered in Washington, its loans and data set the terms of development.
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to
NewsIMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsSenegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsA shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck near Pitaloza Arriba on Friday, triggering tsunami alerts across nine countries before the all-clear; dozens were hurt, none killed, and the canal never stopped.
NewsSaudi Arabia's Finance Ministry projects a SAR 191 billion deficit in 2027 and 12.8 percent growth, after a 3.6 percent contraction this year. Between arithmetic rebound and deliberate strategy, Riyad
NewsEnergy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsWith AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsOn the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsKristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days. With growth revised up to 5% and August canal income up 57%, Cairo is negotia
NewsThe world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
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