Today we celebrate World Water Day around the world. In Marseille, young people are coming together to promote innovative projects by entrepreneurs for recycling water in households, agriculture,...
Date: March 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ABUJA, March 20, 2017—The World Bank’s Board today approved a $200 million credit to support the Government of Nigeria’s response to the acute humanitarian and forced-displacement crisis triggered...
Date: March 20, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
N'DJAMENA, March 17, 2017−Some 8,000 people are desperately trying to rebuild their lives in the Dar es Salaam refugee camp located along the banks of Lake Chad in the town of Baga Sola. Dispersed...
Date: March 17, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, January 10, 2017 — Every morning, a 40-something-year-old woman lays out fish on one of Lake Tanganyika’s beaches. Once it has dried, she will sell it in Kalemie, a town a few miles...
Date: January 10, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
N'DJAMENA, October 31, 2016 – In Gondjé, a large refugee camp lost in the forest not far from Goré, Daniel Debah has made a name for himself as the president of Seed Producers, an association certified...
Date: October 31, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
There are now over 15 million refugees in the region, representing the most serious crisis of forced displacement since the Second World War. Today’s refugee crisis is not only a humanitarian crisis but...
Date: July 5, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Thank you so much Minister Noonan for the warm welcome to your lovely country and to this Development Finance Forum.As I look around this room, I am struck by the number and diversity of participants that...
Date: May 18, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
NAIROBI, May 10, 2016 – The Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the World Bank signed an agreement today for Finland to provide EUR 4 million to the World Bank-administered Multi Partner Fund (MPF),...
Date: May 10, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Government ministers from around the world confronted the refugee crisis, a slowing economy, and other global challenges at the 2016 World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings. “Forced Displacement and Development”...
Date: April 16, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the 2016 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. I would like to first acknowledge our 189th member country -- the Pacific island...
Date: April 14, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Good afternoon. I’d like to thank our host today, Mr. Fratzscher, and the German Institute for Economic Research/DIW. We are grateful that we can have this event in such a remarkable setting. And I would...
Date: April 5, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
BERLIN, April 5, 2016—World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today said that the world’s powers need to pay far greater attention to boosting developing economies and creating jobs in the most fragile...
Date: April 5, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
DR. KIM: I want to start by saying something, Christine Lagarde said it very eloquently this morning when she was in Frankfurt. I am an economic migrant. My parents moved with me and my brother and...
Date: April 5, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
On March 30, Catherine Samba-Panza, the interim President of the Central African Republic and one of three female heads of state in Africa, handed over power to President-elect Faustin-Archange Touadéra....
Date: March 30, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Thank you very much, I am here representing the World Bank Group, and it is a great honor to be here with the Secretary General of the United Nations. We are here to reaffirm our support for Tunisia as...
Date: March 28, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
AMMAN, March 27, 2016 – Aiming to create 100,000 new jobs for Jordanians and Syrian refugees in the next five years, the World Bank’s Board of Directors has agreed to offer Jordan US$100 million in financing ...
Date: March 27, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
As the World Bank Group, we want also to express our deepest gratitude to King Abdallah, Queen Rania and all of the Jordanian people.The generosity and tolerance that the Jordanian people are showing has...
Date: March 27, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Mr. Speaker, Members of Parliament, Mr. Secretary General, and distinguished guests. It is a great honor to address you today from the home of one of the first great legislator, Hammurabi. His Code...
Date: March 26, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
BAGHDAD, March 26, 2016 –World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim told a special session of the Iraqi parliament today that the path to stability and shared growth in Iraq lay in empowering local governments,...
Date: March 26, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
I’m very pleased to be here today together with His Excellency Rachid Derbas, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Islamic Development Bank President Dr. Mohamed Ali Al-Madani to inaugurate the Social...
Date: March 25, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
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