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President of World Bank Ajay Banga, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and US President Joe Biden pose for photos before a meeting. IMAGES
Global growth is set to be higher than expected this year, the IMF said Monday, raising its forecast on surprisingly strong consumption and investment while China's lifting of zero-Covid restrictions provides another boost. SOUNDBITE
President Donald Trump taps World Bank critic David Malpass to lead one of the world's primary development lending institutions, calling him an "extraordinary man." SOUNDBITE
The World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction from 2019, Jim Yong Kim announced Tuesday at a climate summit seeking to boost the global economy's shift to clean energy. SOUNDBITE
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée on Tuesday, as world leaders gathered in Paris to talk about climate finance, two years to the day since the Paris agreement. IMAGES