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New World Bank Group Facility to Enable more than $1 billion for Women Entrepreneurship

This facility will work to improve access to capital, provide technical assistance, and invest in other projects and programs that support women and women-led SMEs.

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Jun 18, 2017

Nearly $59 billion in World Bank Group Support to Developing Countries in Fiscal Year 2017

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Jul 10, 2017

Speech by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the 2017 SHE-ERA Conference

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Jun 28, 2017

World Bank Launches First-Ever Pandemic Bonds to Support $500 Million Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility

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Jul 10, 2017

A Hard Swap – Supporting Tunisia in Better Understanding the Foreign Currency Exposure for Government Debt Operations

Jul 20, 2017

New Open Source Tool a “Breakthrough” in Electrification Planning

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Jul 10, 2017

The Visible Impacts of the Syrian War May Only be the Tip of the Iceberg

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