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9 Jul 18
The World Bank has approved a $40m grant to improve basic services and social security in Benin.
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5 Jul 18
Poor quality health services are increasing the number of avoidable illness cases and driving up health costs globally, a joint report has warned.
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29 Jun 18
Sri Lanka must push on with its governance and public financial management reforms in order to secure a growth boost, according to the World Bank.
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26 Jun 18
If small islands states improved their recovery and reconstruction efforts after natural disasters they could reduce their annual losses by up to 59%, the World Bank has found.
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26 Jun 18
The World Bank has approved a $300m loan to improve healthcare services in Bolivia.
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20 Jun 18
Uganda must transform its agricultural sector to drive economic growth and reduce poverty, the World Bank has said.
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15 Jun 18
Inequality continues to be a challenge to the island nation state of Comoros, despite improved living conditions and lower poverty levels, the World Bank has concluded.
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13 Jun 18
Climate financing by the world’s biggest multilateral development banks has hit a seven-year high of $35.2bn in 2017.
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8 Jun 18
The World Bank is giving the Maldives $12m to help the island territory in the Indian Ocean improve the way it manages its public finances.
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7 Jun 18
Irresponsible banks should be made to pay for reckless lending, with the costs of crises shared between borrower and lender, says Tim Jones of the Jubilee Debt Campaign.
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7 Jun 18
Global economic growth alone is not enough to end extreme poverty in some parts of the world, the head of the World Bank has warned.
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4 Jun 18
The World Bank is to fund a project aimed at improving public financial management in the West Bank and Gaza that it is hoped will drive private investment.
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31 May 18
Countries around the world lost out on $160trn in 2014 because of the differences in earnings between men and women, according to the World Bank.
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10 May 18
The world should look to the disasters of the past to help it prepare for the future, the World Bank has said.
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8 May 18
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lags behind its counterparts and the private sector in moving away from funding fossil fuels, says think-tank E3G’s Helena Wright.
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8 May 18
The world is unlikely to meet the global energy targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, international agencies have said.
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30 Apr 18
Oil prices are forecast to average at $65 a barrel, up from $53 in 2017 as consumer demand and restraint by oil producers have increased.
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24 Apr 18
Remittances to low- and middle-income countries rebounded to a record level in 2017 after two years of decline, the World Bank has announced.
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17 Apr 18
The World Bank should stop funding and promoting public private partnerships until a review of their effectiveness has been done, an NGO umbrella group has called for today.
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16 Apr 18
The World Bank is to invest $500m in education reforms in Egypt, expanding access to early years education and making greater use of technical innovations.
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11 Apr 18
The World Bank has called for action to bring down poverty rates in the Philippines’ Mindanao province, which accounts for one-third of the country’s poor but only a quarter of its population.
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9 Apr 18
Thailand’s economy is expected to grow by 4.1% this year the World Bank has said, marking the country’s best economic performance since 2012.
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3 Apr 18
Technology is the key that will drive forward green projects in the Asian countries connected by the Mekong River, argues Asian Development Bank’s Pavit Ramachandran.
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3 Apr 18
The World Bank has provided Pakistan with $145m to help make home-ownership more accessible and affordable in the country.
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29 Mar 18
Agriculture must play a central part in boosting Somalia’s economy and alleviating poverty, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation have said.