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12 Jun 18
Bangladesh must boost investment to ease infrastructure bottlenecks if it is to maintain progress towards becoming a middle-income economy, the IMF has said.
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11 Jun 18
Local authorities in the UK are demanding their government clarifies how it will fund infrastructure after they lose billions of pounds from the European Investment Bank following Brexit.
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12 Mar 18
The UK and Saudi Arabia are to partner up to boost economic development and infrastructure in some of the world’s poorest drought and conflict-hit countries.
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29 Nov 17
The Asian Development Bank has approved an additional $120m in loans to bring drinking water to urban areas of Sri Lanka.
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21 Nov 17
A group of 10 Southeast Asian nations needs more than $60bn to close the infrastructure gap in the region, a conference heard.
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24 Aug 17
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $400m loan to support renovation and electrification work of an urban railway in Argentina.
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24 Aug 17
The World Bank has denied reports that it was financing a €1bn project to electrify a railway in Iran.
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23 Aug 17
The African Development Bank Group has banned China’s Chongqing International Construction Corporation (CICO) from bidding for contracts for at least a year after a corruption probe.
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21 Aug 17
Africa cannot “develop in the dark”, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said, explaining the bank’s emphasis on investment in electricity.
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11 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to loan Bangladesh $200m to strengthen municipal infrastructure, service delivery and governance in 35 localities.
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11 Aug 17
Three Danish pension funds have combined to create a $550m vehicle for infrastructure investments in Africa.
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28 Jul 17
Three energy efficient kindergartens have been opened in Kazakhstan backed by an aid fund provided by Switzerland and administered by the World Bank.
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19 Jul 17
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $526m multitranche financing facility for infrastructure investments in Bangladesh.
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4 Jul 17
Global governments should invest in infrastructure that allows the easy passage of food around the world and avoids shortfalls and price spikes, according to a think-tank.
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7 Jun 17
More investment in infrastructure and good governance will be key to Cambodia’s continuing economic success, according to the International Monetary Fund’s deputy managing director.
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26 May 17
In its 2017 budget, New Zealand unveiled public finance forecasts likely to be envied the world over. Set for a significant, and growing, cash surplus, the government can tackle some long-standing...
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25 May 17
New Zealand expects a surplus of around $5bn by 2021, according to its 2017 budget, which plans lower taxes and investment in services and infrastructure to make the most of this position.
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15 May 17
China has pledged to spend over $120bn in support of its ambitious development plan centred on building trade and connectivity infrastructure across Asia, Africa and Europe.
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8 May 17
More and better public finance is essential to finding the 10.5% of GDP Asia-Pacific’s poorest countries need to bridge debilitating infrastructure gaps, according to the United Nations.
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4 May 17
African governments must embrace the digital technologies that have the potential to transform the continent’s economies and public services, according to accountancy firm EY.
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25 Apr 17
Asian Development Bank lending surpassed the $30bn mark for the first time in the bank’s 50-year history in 2016, its annual report has highlighted.
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20 Apr 17
The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa this year as the region’s key economies falter.
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18 Apr 17
The World Bank has slashed its growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa by almost one percentage point, as war and low oil prices batter the region’s economies.
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11 Apr 17
More taxes, better monitoring and more transparent spending will be needed in Qatar to offset the impact of a price slump on the country’s commodity-reliant economy, according to the International...
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11 Apr 17
The Philippines will remain one of the region’s top tiger economies for the next two to three years, the World Bank has predicted.