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18 Nov 22
Most people in Nigeria lack adequate access to cooking fuel, water sanitation, healthcare, food security and housing, the nation’s official statistics body has found.
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11 Oct 22
The acceleration of reforms aimed at collecting additional revenue and debt restructuring will help Sri Lanka to support its poorest and aid its financial recovery, economists at the World Bank have...
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25 Aug 22
The economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have put the brakes on reducing extreme poverty in the Asia Pacific region, economists at the Asian Development Bank have said.
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23 Aug 22
The Filipino government has proposed a record budget for 2023 that it said will help boost the economy and lift people out of poverty.
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15 Jun 22
The Malaysian government must provide greater support to states that are lagging behind their more developed and industrialised peers, according to the World Bank.
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1 Apr 22
Sustaining China’s unprecedented success in ending extreme poverty will need “vigorous measures” revitalising the country’s rural areas, the World Bank has said.
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23 Mar 22
The Nigerian government should repurpose money spent on fuel subsidies to fund reforms aimed at reducing poverty, according to the World Bank Group.
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27 Jul 21
Myanmar’s economy could be 30% worse off due to the impact of political turmoil and Covid-19 on development progress, according to the World Bank Group.
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18 Oct 19
Economic challenges have slowed the rate of poverty reduction in Central Asia, the World Bank has warned.
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24 Sep 18
Finance professionals should step out of their “technical bubble” if they want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, an Overseas Development Institute director has urged.
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21 Sep 18
Brexit negotiations risk undervaluing UK-EU collaboration in international development at their peril, says Claire Godfrey, from Bond, a UK network of organisations working in international...
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11 Feb 16
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has pressed Pakistan to step up its economic reform ambitions and seize related opportunities for growth.
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16 Dec 15
Increased capital spending in Indonesia could spur higher growth in the country in 2016, the World Bank has said.
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5 Nov 15
Measures to ensure equality in Africa starts to grow in line with its economy have been discussed by delegates at the 10th African Economic Conference in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week.
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28 Oct 15
Early childhood programmes are key to reducing poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean but are too often under-funded and poor quality, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has said.
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20 Jul 15
China has boosted its emerging role as one of the world’s major international aid donors, signing to an agreement with the World Bank to establish a $50m fund to reduce poverty.