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    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Moral Money
      The new climate threat from interest rates Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, hedging the risks linked to carbon offsets

      Axel van Trotsenburg speaks, hands raised in emphasis, against a blue and yellow backdrop.
    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Moral Money
      World Bank head David Malpass’s big appeal Premium content

      Plus, demand for green goods weathers inflation

      David Malpass against a backdrop of national flags
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      World Bank
      US nominates former Mastercard chief as World Bank president

      Ajay Banga tapped by Joe Biden as institution shifts to greater focus on climate change

      Ajay Banga
    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      World Bank
      World Bank member nations split over plans to expand balance sheet

      Leading emerging markets and Germany fear proposed reforms threaten institution’s triple-A credit rating

      Protesters outside the meeting of World Bank and IMF
    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      Climate change
      US leads search for new World Bank chief with climate at heart

      Candidates need to balance wealthy shareholders and countries dealing with poverty

      World Bank logo with images of Mafalda Duarte, Gayle Smith, Samantha Power, Raj Shah and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      World Bank
      World Bank president David Malpass to leave early

      Trump appointee to step down by end of June as institution faces pressure over tackling climate change

      David Malpass
    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Global Economy
      World Bank warns of mounting debt burden for poorer countries

      Higher interest rates and slump in currencies raise debt servicing costs by more than a third

      A girl uses a kerosene oil lamp to study at home in Colombo, Sri Lanka
    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Moral Money
      David Malpass: a marked man? Premium content

      Plus, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani turns to green energy

      David Malpass speaking
    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Climate change
      US and Germany lead calls for climate action at World Bank meetings

      Pressure increases on development banks to fund clean energy in poorer nations

      World Bank president David Malpass
    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      World Bank
      World Bank head under pressure to quit over climate change doubts

      David Malpass criticised for lack of leadership on environment-related finance for developing countries

      Climate activists hold a banner in front of the World Bank headquarters in Washington on Thursday
    • Sunday, 5 June, 2022
      World Bank
      US Treasury takes aim at World Bank over climate change inaction

      Biden administration identifies ‘gaps’ in response to requests from Treasury secretary Janet Yellen

      David Malpass speaks after former US president Donald Trump announces his candidacy to lead the World Bank during an event in the White House in February 2019
    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      World Bank
      World Bank under fire for being ‘missing in action’ on climate change

      Al Gore, UN and other development banks take aim at international financial institution over weak commitments

      World Bank president David Malpass
    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      Radical transparency will help vaccinate the world

      ‘A database of vaccine orders would enable policymakers to address imbalances in supply and price more easily’

    • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
      Education
      World Bank: four steps to equitable education

      Debt relief is needed now to stop the pandemic denying more children a basic education, with girls most at risk

    • Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
      Emerging markets
      Virus will push up to 60m into extreme poverty, World Bank warns

      President David Malpass calls for more help to alleviate impact on ‘millions of livelihoods’

      President of the World Bank David Malpass
    • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
      Coronavirus
      World Bank: Coronavirus highlights the need to strengthen health systems

      This outbreak can be contained given our shared goals — but we must act fast

      IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank Group President David Malpass bump elbows at the end of a joint press briefing on COVID-19 in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
      World Bank
      White House objects to $1bn World Bank loan programme for China

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

      WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 05: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 05, 2019 in Washington, DC. In his capacity as chairman of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, Mnuchin answered committee members' questions about the Trump Administration's deregulation of the financial services industry and his thoughts on the Climate Change Financial Risk Act of 2019. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    • Monday, 11 November, 2019
      World Bank
      World Bank scales back $50m training project in Xinjiang

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

      An ethnic Uighur woman walks in front of a giant screen with a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping in the main city square in Kashgar in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 6, 2018. The screen broadcasts a slideshow of images of Xi on loop, including propaganda images of his previous visit to Xinjiang. Picture taken September 6, 2018. To match Special Report MUSLIMS-CAMPS/CHINA REUTERS/Thomas Peter
    • Monday, 7 October, 2019
      Global Economy
      World Bank boss warns global growth could disappoint

      David Malpass blames Brexit, Europe’s recession and trade uncertainty

      World Bank Group President David Malpass attends a news conference after a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
    • Sunday, 25 August, 2019
      Ukraine
      Ukraine is ready to seize its chance to reform

      World Bank president argues that new leadership must revamp agriculture and finance

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a meeting with World Bank President David Malpass in Kiev, Ukraine August 23, 2019. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
    • Monday, 19 August, 2019
      Frank Vogl
      The IMF and World Bank need a tougher anti-corruption agenda

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

      July 1944: English economist John Maynard Keynes, (1883 - 1946), 1st Baron Keynes (centre), attends the United Nations International Monetary and Financial Conference at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire. He played a leading role in the formulation of the Bretton Woods agreements and was also instrumental in the establishment of the International Monetary Fund. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
      Global trade
      Donald Trump’s World Bank chief laments global trade slowdown

      David Malpass stops short of rebuking White House for protectionist policies

      David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Treasury, listens during a Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) meeting at the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. The Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said at the meeting he is worried about a spillover from hard Brexit, but stocks and Treasuries showed little reaction. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
    • Tuesday, 9 April, 2019
      Global Economy
      Malpass signals continuity as he takes the helm at World Bank

      Trump ally takes conciliatory tone on climate change and China on first day

      David Malpass speaks in front of the World Bank on his first day as the new president of the bank in Washington, DC on April 9, 2019. - The world's largest economy is now expected to expand at a 2.3 percent clip this year, down from the 2.5 percent expected in January, but still relatively strong, according to the report released ahead of this week's spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images
    • Friday, 5 April, 2019
      World Bank
      David Malpass defies doubts to secure World Bank presidency

      Former Bear Stearns economist still faces some scepticism over his vision for the institution

      David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Treasury, listens during a Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) meeting at the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. The Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said at the meeting he is worried about a spillover from hard Brexit, but stocks and Treasuries showed little reaction. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
    • Wednesday, 27 February, 2019
      World Bank
      US seeks Europe backing for Malpass appointment at World Bank

      France looks for assurances on climate change from Trump nominee 

      David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Treasury, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. The subcommittees on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy met for a joint hearing on multilateral economic institutions and U.S. foreign policy. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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