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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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14 May 18
Lenders and borrowers must be “more responsible” as debt crises are growing across the globe, a charity has warned.
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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 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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27 Feb 18
Thailand and the World Bank have agreed to work together to promote awareness of the digital economy and adopt digital transformation in both the public and private sectors.
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5 Feb 18
Liberia and the World Bank have signed a $24.67m grant agreement to boost economic transformation and governance in the west African country.
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15 Jan 18
Reducing the volume of road traffic deaths and injuries could bring substantial long-term financial gains for low- and middle-income countries because accidents strike hardest at those of working age.
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15 Dec 17
The World Bank will end all financial support for new oil and gas projects from 2019, it announced at a climate change summit in Paris on Tuesday.
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7 Dec 17
The World Bank has approved a $1.15bn loan to help Egypt’s economy through reforms to strengthen public finances.
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28 Jun 17
Ethiopia and the World Bank have agreed a new five-year partnership to build on the considerable development gains achieved over the past decade and boost institutional accountability.
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30 May 17
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18 Oct 16
Greater global cooperation through carbon trading could reduce the cost of climate change mitigation by 32% by 2030, according to a World Bank report.
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5 Oct 16
The world’s youngest children suffer the most from the impact of extreme poverty, a joint report from UNICEF and the World Bank has found.
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15 Sep 16
Integrated reporting can help deliver improved service outcomes at a time when austerity and tight budgets are weighing on public sector organisations across the world, according to a joint report by...
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18 Jul 16
The director of the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia Department is to retire from the fund in October.
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29 Mar 16
Belarus has received a $10m World Bank loan to help it implement an ambitious public financial management modernisation programme.
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24 Mar 16
The United Nations, World Bank and Islamic Development Bank are joining forces to raise additional finance and rally support for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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24 Feb 16
Vietnam’s economy will need to grow by 7% a year and average incomes rise to over $7,000, up from $2,000 in 2014, if it is to achieve its ambition of attaining upper-middle-income status in two...
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22 Feb 16
The World Bank has approved a $450m package to support the Philippines government’s health and education conditional cash transfer programme.
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19 Feb 16
The World Bank has announced it will make $150m immediately available to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have been affected by the Zika virus outbreak.