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Habitat III—That Once Every 20 Years Global Urban Event
There aren't many groups that wait 20 years to meet… but that is, in fact, the case with the upcoming United Nations' Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, otherwise known as H...
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G20 Leaders Welcome Launch of Inclusive Business Platform
Hangzhou, September 7, 2016—Leaders at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China emphasized the need for sustainable and inclusive growth, and welcomed the launch of the G20 Global Platform on Inclusive Busin...
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World Bank Partners with ONCE Foundation to Advance Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2016―The World Bank and ONCE Foundation are joining forces to advance the social and economic development of persons with disabilities through education, employment, skills develop...
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Tanzania Needs to Invest More on Infrastructure and Human Capital to Improve its Competitiveness and Create More Productive Jobs
DAR ES SALAAM, May 20, 2016 — The new Tanzanian government is implementing sweeping measures to strengthen fiscal management and curb corruption. These measures have started to yield results with mont...
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UN Secretary-General and World Bank Group President Appoint the Members of the High-level Panel on Water
WASHINGTON, DC, April 21, 2016 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced today the appointment of 10 Heads of State and Government, as well a...
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Keynote Speech by Cecile Fruman at ISO 50th DEVCO Meeting: Achieving the SDGs and the role of Standards, A World Bank Group Perspective
It is a pleasure to join you today to deliver remarks on behalf of the World Bank Group. My remarks will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and the role standards play in achieving them. I wil...
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World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings 2016 Development Committee Communiqué
1. The Development Committee met today, October 8, in Washington, D.C. 2. Global economic growth remains sluggish in 2016, with only a modest pick-up expected in 2017. Demand has remained soft despite...
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India: Laying the Foundation for Transformation
Challenge Although India’s development has been one of the most remarkable global achievements in recent times, its gross national income ($1,570 per capita (2014, current US$)) remains low and consid...
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Shanghai's Remarkable Education Story
Education has traditionally been seen as a way out of poverty, and nowhere is this truer than in China. In Shanghai, particularly, a modern education system has been evolving since the mid-19th centur...
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International Organizations Take Major Step to Boost Global Cooperation in Tax Matters
April 19, 2016 –The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank Group (WBG) announced today the det...
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West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program
CONTEXT In Africa, agriculture accounts for 65% of employment and 35% of gross domestic product (GDP), but poverty remains high in rural areas where most of the population depends on agriculture to ma...
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EU contributes €5 million to Extractives Global Programmatic Support Program
The European Union (EU) and the World Bank Group (WBG) signed a grant agreement for a €5 million (about $5.6 million) contribution to the Extractives Global Programmatic Support (EGPS) program, a mult...
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The IFSB and World Bank to Host High-Level Seminar on Islamic Finance
Kuala Lumpur/Washington, DC, September 26, 2016 – The Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) and the World Bank’s Treasury and Finance & Markets Global Practice Group will be hosting a High-Leve...
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Making Climate Finance Work in Agriculture
Agriculture in the 21st century faces multiple challenges: an increased demand for food due to a growing population and changing diets, a levelling off of crop yields, and dwindling natural resources ...
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Medellin Collaboration Expands Commitment to Resilience Beyond 4,000 Cities
It has been 27 years since the United Nations General Assembly felt the urgency to call for an International Day for Disaster Reduction, established with the longterm objective of raising global aware...
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African Partners, World Bank Commit to Provide Identification to Millions
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2016 —African leaders and development partners agreed on a common approach for accelerating the provision of unique identification to millions of people in Africa as a means...
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World Bank Supports Urban Development and Poor Neighborhood Upgrading in Congo
WASHINGTON, February 18, 2016— The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$80 million financing for an Urban Development and Poor Neighborhood Upgrading Project in Congo. The proje...
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Boosting African Agriculture: New AGRA-World Bank Agreement to Support Farming-Led Transformation
WASHINGTON D.C., April 20, 2016 – In a new push to catalyze growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture and food sectors, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and World Bank Agriculture...
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Unprecedented Collaboration among Development Partners to Improve Infrastructure Implementation
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2016—The inaugural Global Infrastructure Forum 2016 convening here today brings together for the first time the leaders of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) -- African De...
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New Pathways for Forests
Thank you, Andrew. [I would also like to thank Paula Caballero and John Roome, as well as their teams, for organizing this event.] I’m very pleased to see so many people here today. We are all h...
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