NAIROBI, April 12, 2017—Kenya’s GDP growth is projected to decelerate to 5.5%, a 0.5 percentage point mark down from the 2016 forecast, according to the World Bank’s Kenya Economic Update (KEU) released...
Date: April 12, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In India, the micro, small and medium enterprise sector plays a crucial role in the country’s economy. Almost 50 million such enterprises operate in various industries across India, employing over 100...
Date: February 2, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
PRETORIA, August 17, 2016 – A downgrade of sovereign credit ratings to sub-investment or 'junk' status has a negative effect on public borrowing costs, according to a recently released World...
Date: August 17, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
More than half of Colombia’s population (61%) doesn’t have an account with a financial institution. Simply put, most Colombians don’t have access to financial instruments or services that would allow them...
Date: April 25, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Efficient and predictable insolvency regimes enhance micro, small and medium-sized enterprises’ (MSMEs) access to credit that they need to thrive. A leading group of experts discussed this topic...
Date: November 25, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
With support from the World Bank Group, 17 African countries, members of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), adopted a Uniform Insolvency Act last week in...
Date: September 16, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Ramallah, April 8, 2015- The World Bank Group and the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) organized today a joint workshop to discuss the design of a new Credit Guarantee Facility (CGF) for the private...
Date: April 8, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KABUL CITY, Afghanistan – Alam Dad received a loan in just 10 days instead of the several weeks that he would normally expect. He still cannot believe that it happened so quickly. “It would take my friends...
Date: April 2, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, February 18, 2015—The World Bank Group, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, will expand its program to help cities unlock capital to deliver needed infrastructure for a climate-smart...
Date: February 18, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Magandang hapon po. Thank you to our partners from government and the private sector, and our friends from the media, for joining today’s discussion of the Philippine performance in the Doing Business...
Date: October 29, 2014
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Washington, D.C., October 29, 2014 — A new World Bank Group report finds that Singapore continues to provide the world’s most business-friendly regulatory environment. Also among the top 10 economies in...
Date: October 29, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Vientiane, August 14, 2014 – The Government of Lao PDR and the World Bank Group today signed two agreements for the new World Bank Group financing of more than USD40 million. The new support for the Small...
Date: August 14, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Manila, the Philippines, October 29, 2013—A new World Bank and IFC report finds that Singapore continues to provide the world’s most business-friendly regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs, followed...
Date: October 29, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
New and old ways of coffee farming meet as cousins Carlos Alberto and Luís Carlos “Japao” Bassetto face the camera. The screen in their hands was used many years ago to clean the coffee cherries. ...
Date: September 25, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Milene Veroneze, from São Paulo, was only 13 when his father joined a cooperative of milk producers. Today, at 37, she is in charge of acquisitions and payments, and keeps an eye out to make sure her colleagues...
Date: July 25, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Upgraded system of electronic payments and better access to data will ease the flow of money, increase transparency, and ultimately expand credit WASHINGTON, July 25, 2013 – Economic activity in...
Date: July 25, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Kassala City, Kassala State, April 4, 2013- Mohammed Abdel Ati Alhusein proudly stands in front of his brick home in Kassala, a bustling market town nestled below mountains along the border between Sudan...
Date: April 4, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Three quarters of the world’s poor don’t have a bank account, not only because of poverty, but the cost, travel distance and amount of paper work involved in opening an account, according to new data released...
Date: April 19, 2012
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
1.8 Million People to Access Rural Financial System1 Million People to Access Phone Banking WASHINGTON DC, Deceber 1, 2011 – Underprivileged, indigenous, and female populations in Mexico’s rural areas...
Date: December 1, 2011
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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