BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are under pressure to offer more help to poor countries being hammered by energy challenges and climate ...

As climate change leads to a seemingly endless stream of weather disasters around the world, countries are struggling to adapt to the new reality. Preparing to better withstand hurricanes, floods, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank and other multilateral development banks are making good progress on reforms to expand their lending capacity to help countries brace for climate change and other ...

(Reuters) - A dozen of the largest multilateral development banks could collectively lend a further half-trillion dollars before facing rating downgrades, Fitch said in a Wednesday report, following a ...

This is a joint post with Tess Turner and Michael Weilandt. When China decided that it wanted to fund infrastructure investment throughout the developing world (The Belt and Road Initiative) it put ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As climate change leads to a seemingly ...

Misheck Mutize is affiliated with the African Union - African Peer Review Mechanism as a Lead Expert on credit ratings A quiet but consequential contest is playing out in the global financial ...

The World Bank and other multilateral development banks recently have begun reconsidering their self-imposed restrictions on financing fossil fuel projects. This change is being prompted in part by ...

Ned Rauch-Mannino was a Visiting Fellow for The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for National Security. MDBs can be a strategic soft power tool in support of America’s “peace ...