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World Bank

The multilateral development lender whose financing and data shape infrastructure and policy across emerging economies.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Bessent calls for World Bank reforms, including upstream oil and gas financing

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Live updates from the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Thailand as financial leaders take on AI, debt, and geopolitical upheaval

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Middle East War and Global Debt Crisis Set to Dominate IMF-World Bank Meetings in Bangkok

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

All 3 events and claims involving World Bank

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 86 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 5 on 26 Sept 2026 (+1620%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 15 Oct 2026 (2 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

701 documents · 168 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.071: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside World Bank

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IMFAfricaIndiaAIChinaThailandOilClimate
  • GDP · 243 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • IMF · 231 shared documents
  • Africa · 220 shared documents
  • India · 213 shared documents
  • AI · 176 shared documents
  • China · 172 shared documents
  • Thailand · 169 shared documents
  • Oil · 163 shared documents
  • International Monetary · 150 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Climate · 145 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 86 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 5 on 26 Sept 2026 (+1620%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +1333% from 4 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 5 and 86 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions World Bank, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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For developers

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Events involving World Bank

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Bessent calls for World Bank reforms, including upstream oil and gas financing

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Live updates from the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Thailand as financial leaders take on AI, debt, and geopolitical upheaval

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Middle East War and Global Debt Crisis Set to Dominate IMF-World Bank Meetings in Bangkok

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

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World Bank

Entity.

Evidence
701 documents · 168 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 17 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
13 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names World Bank, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

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What it connects to

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Recorded history

  • 15 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 6 Oct 2026

  • 15 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 6 Oct 2026

2 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

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