Tag: World Bank

On June 30, 2022, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the establishment of a Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and ...

In anticipation of the G7 meeting scheduled to start this week, the Global South-led initiative Debt for Climate calls on ...

The World Bank has issued the world’s first Wildlife Conservation Bond (WCB) or the “rhino bond”, raising $150 million to ...

The World Bank’s bi-annual “Global Economic Prospects” report, released Tuesday, forecasts a slowing of global growth for 2022 and 2023. ...

In these times when developed economies are desperately trying to deal with the impact of COVID and the need to ...

Afghanistan is about to experience its worst drought in decades, hitting 25 out of the country’s 34 provinces, exacerbating the ...

The World Bank recently published a report declaring that as many as 38.5 million people will be displaced in East ...

These last few weeks have had both the insiders of the international Bretton Woods institutions - the IMF and the ...

Updated October 12, 2021. After reviewing allegations against the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva that she pressured World Bank ...

2018 was a turning point: Good for new World Bank lending that was substantially expanded, bad for its “Doing Business” ...

New World Bank/FAO Report Looks at Urban Food Systems Governance Evolving food preferences, rising malnutrition, public health concerns, rapid urbanization, ...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Extreme Poverty: 150 Million 'New Poor' in One Year COVID-19 is converging with climate ...