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World Bank · Aug 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Artificial intelligence could meaningfully raise productivity in sixteen point two percent of jobs in developing economies, close to the eighteen point seven…
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World Bank · Aug 9, 2026 · 4 min read
The World Bank has approved a one hundred million dollar grant to modernise Syria's financial system, its Board of Executive Directors clearing…
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World Bank · Aug 7, 2026 · 4 min read
The World Bank Group's Independent Evaluation Group published its Country Program Evaluation for Egypt on 6 August 2026, covering the financial years…
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World Bank · Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Only 4.5 percent of jobs in developing economies face automation risk from generative artificial intelligence, against 14.2 percent in high-income countries, the…
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Global · Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization said the…
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China · Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
China's economic growth is projected to slow to 4.4 percent in 2026 and ease further to 4.3 percent in 2027, the World…
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Jordan · Jul 2, 2026 · 5 min read
The World Bank has reclassified Jordan as an upper-middle-income economy in its annual income classifications effective 1 July, a milestone that coincides…
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Jordan · Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$700 million loan for Jordan to help convert macroeconomic stability into stronger…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Global gas flaring rose for the third consecutive year in 2025, climbing to 167 billion cubic metres and wasting an estimated US$54…
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Global · Jun 13, 2026 · 5 min read
The World Bank expects global growth to slow to 2.5% in 2026, its weakest pace since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 12, 2026 · 7 min read
QatarEnergy's force majeure on affected liquefied natural gas supply contracts has become one of the most important energy market developments of 2026,…
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IEA · Jun 9, 2026 · 6 min read
Kuwait's reported offer of crude cargoes to Asian refiners marks an important but still cautious signal for Gulf energy markets. Market reporting…
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Artificial intelligence could meaningfully raise productivity in sixteen point two percent of jobs in developing economies, close to the eighteen point seven percent expected in high income countries, while putting a far smaller share of jobs at risk of automation, according to the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2026, released on 4 August. The…
The World Bank has approved a one hundred million dollar grant to modernise Syria’s financial system, its Board of Executive Directors clearing the Syria Financial Sector Modernization Project on 6 August and the Bank announcing it on 7 August. The money is an International Development Association grant, equivalent to seventy three point eight million special…
The World Bank Group’s Independent Evaluation Group published its Country Program Evaluation for Egypt on 6 August 2026, covering the financial years 2015 to 2025. Its central finding on public finances is stark in its simplicity: Egypt’s tax revenue was 12.6 percent of gross domestic product in financial year 2015 and 12.7 percent in financial…
Only 4.5 percent of jobs in developing economies face automation risk from generative artificial intelligence, against 14.2 percent in high-income countries, the World Bank Group said on 4 August in its World Development Report 2026, subtitled The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Jobs in wealthy nations are, in the bank’s phrasing, more than three times as…
The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization said the global economy “has been broadly resilient” to the shock from the war in the Middle East, but warned that the impacts remain highly uneven across energy supplies, food security, commodities and economic activity,…
China’s economic growth is projected to slow to 4.4 percent in 2026 and ease further to 4.3 percent in 2027, the World Bank said in its latest China Economic Update, as the shift away from investment and exports toward household consumption proceeds only gradually. The report, titled Rebalancing Growth, described an economy that stayed resilient…
The World Bank has reclassified Jordan as an upper-middle-income economy in its annual income classifications effective 1 July, a milestone that coincides with a pickup in Jordanian growth to 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2026. It is a rare category change: Jordan was one of only five economies worldwide to move up from…
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$700 million loan for Jordan to help convert macroeconomic stability into stronger private investment, faster growth and more jobs, the second operation in a programmatic reform series. The financing, the Jordan Growth and Competitiveness Development Policy Financing II, supports government reforms aimed at improving the…
Global gas flaring rose for the third consecutive year in 2025, climbing to 167 billion cubic metres and wasting an estimated US$54 billion worth of gas, according to the World Bank Group’s annual Global Gas Flaring Tracker. With many countries, especially the poorest, facing energy shortages, the World Bank says capturing this gas could strengthen…
The World Bank expects global growth to slow to 2.5% in 2026, its weakest pace since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the conflict in the Middle East drives up energy prices, inflation, and borrowing costs. The forecast, in the Group’s June 2026 Global Economic Prospects report, marks a downgrade for two-thirds of the…