World Bank’s Banga wants to make gains in tackling the effects of climate change, poverty and war

World Bank President Ajay Banga poses for a portrait after an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at the World Bank in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) WASHINGTON - There was no shortage of stressors to the global economy when Ajay Banga took charge at the World Bank almost a year ago: inflation eating at nations drowning in debt, a once-in-a-generation pandemic, climate disasters and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Factor in the Israel-Hamas war and rising tensions between powerful nations, and today’s agenda is even fuller as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund hold their spring…