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Investing in treatment for depression and anxiety leads to fourfold return
World Health Organization/World Bank Group press release Depression and anxiety disorders cost the global economy US$1 trillion each year; countries and development partners to discuss way forward dur...
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World Bank Moves Forward in Fight against Poverty in West Africa
Grant will improve data collection and understanding of living conditions in eight countries WASHINGTON, April 6, 2016— The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved an International De...
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Africa Climate Business Plan Progress Report: Main Messages
WASHINGTON, November 8, 2016 – Since the launch of the Africa Climate Business Plan (ACBP) in 2015, the World Bank has been working with client countries, development partners, and the priva...
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New Little Green Data Book Offers Tools for Measuring Progress on SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 articulate a new global development agenda to eradicate poverty and shift the world onto a sustainable development path by 2030. The 17 SDGs an...
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New Initiatives and Financing for Development Challenges in Small States
When the World Bank talks about small states, we mean countries that have a population of 1.5 million or less. Small states have limited human capital, and typically fewer exports and trade partners a...
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The World Bank and the International Water Association to Establish a Partnership to Reduce Water Losses
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, September 1, 2016 - The World Bank and the International Water Association (IWA) declared their intentions at World Water Week today to establish a global partnership to help countr...
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Africa’s Bold and Ambitious Endeavor: Restoring 100M Hectares of Land by 2030
WASHINGTON, November 14, 2016 – Sub-Saharan African countries are on an ambitious path to restore and sustainably manage 100 million hectares of land in the region by 2030, and several countries ...
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Toward Sustainable Mobility
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Climate targets agreed on by most countries in 2015 will require bold and ambitious action across all sectors of the economy, but particularly transpo...
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Partners Launch Framework to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage in Africa; World Bank and Global Fund Commit $24 Billion
African Heads of State and Partners Mobilize around Plans for Universal Health Coverage to Achieve 2030 Sustainable Development Goals NAIROBI, Kenya, August 26, 2016—Today at the Sixth Tokyo Internati...
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Agribusiness rules lag in agriculture dependent countries
WASHINGTON, January 28, 2016 – Countries where agriculture is a major economic activity have greater room for improving key regulations that govern the agribusiness sector, a new World Bank report fin...
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Forced Displacement: A Developing World Crisis
Rooted in 10 conflicts, majority of refugees have been hosted by 15 countries, says new World Bank report WASHINGTON, September 15, 2016—Forced displacement is a crisis centered in developing countrie...
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International Development Association (IDA) Receives Aaa/AAA Credit Rating
WASHINGTON, September 22, 2016 — The International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank Group that works in the world’s poorest countries, announced today its first-ever publ...
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World Bank Group, UNICEF urge greater investment in early childhood development
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2016 – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake today jointly urged global and national leaders to step up and accelerate action and inv...
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Film4Climate Global Video Competition Opens, In Search of Short Videos to Inspire the World
Winners to be honored at official awards ceremony at COP22 climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco in November 2016 WASHINGTON, June 20, 2016 – The Film4Climate Global Video Competition formally opens to...
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When It Comes to the Hunger Challenge, Producing More Food Isn’t the Only Answer
As the world prepares to mark World Food Day on October 16, we sat down with Juergen Voegele, Senior Director for the Agriculture Global Practice, to find out how the World Bank is fighting hunger. Th...
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Global Community Makes Record $75 Billion Commitment to End Extreme Poverty
Targets fragility, refugees, climate change and other pressing challenges YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA, December 15, 2016— A coalition of more than 60 donor and borrower governments agreed today to ratchet u...
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Bank Urged to Expand Work on Global Risks
The World Bank Group must become “better, stronger, and more agile” to confront major global challenges over the next 15 years, while also working to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and ...
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Harnessing the Internet for Development
This is note #30 in the Connections series. You can download the PDF version of this note through this link. By Samia Melhem Universal access to the Internet has become a top development pri...
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Remarks by World Bank Group MD and CFO Joaquim Levy at Budapest Water Summit 2016
President Ader, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Water Summit Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m pleased to be here on behalf of the World Bank Group. As you know, water is not on...
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Improving the Policy Environment for Financial Inclusion in the Arab World
The Middle East and North Africa is considered to be the most financially excluded region in the world, where only 21% of adults (about 42 million) have access to an account (excluding the Gulf countr...
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