World Bank
Every Magna Bureau story on World Bank: 10 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
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 Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill — Magna Bureau
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
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive… — Magna Bureau
IMF–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.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that… — Magna Bureau
Senegal 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.
NewsPanama 7.7 earthquake… — Magna Bureau
A 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.
NewsRiyadh Bets on 12.8% Growth After the… — Magna Bureau
Saudi 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
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80… — Magna Bureau
Energy 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.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's… — Magna Bureau
With 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.
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest… — Magna Bureau
On 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.
NewsThe IMF comes to Cairo as the canal's — Magna Bureau
Kristalina 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
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought… — Magna Bureau
The 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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