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Tag: World Bank

Home grown is better for you

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Harshita Bhasin and Anirban Dasgupta warn of the perils of living on imported food. The food crisis fueling an ongoing rush of inflation globally was already brewing due to the …

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Where is credit due?

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Nick Bernards looks at financial solutions to poverty and their remarkable durability.  In 2019, World Bank vice president for equitable growth, finance and institutions, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, sang the virtues of …

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IMF board gets initial briefing on Georgieva role in China data rigging scandal

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WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund said its executive board met on Tuesday to discuss a report prepared for the World Bank alleging that IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva pressured staff to alter data …

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Surging inflation in Nigeria

Surging inflation in Nigeria fuels crime wave – World Bank

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Surging inflation is undermining the recovery of Africa’s biggest economy, pushing 7 million Nigerians into poverty and encouraging criminality as rising prices deplete already meager incomes, according to the World …

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GDP growth masks inequality

GDP Numbers Not What They Seem

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GDP growth appears positive  The World Bank has added its voice to those predicting the global economy will recover faster from the pandemic than previously thought. According to its latest report, …

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Another IMF Loan Feared For Kenya

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Kenya is suffering from a financial crisis, and the government has invited the IMF back. But those who survived the IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programmes of the ’80s …

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The pathology of economics

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Covid-19 exposes the deadly dominance of neoclassical economics in Africa. Howard Stein. On 24 February 2021 Ghana received a vaccine shipment (600,000 doses), the first to sub-Saharan Africa under the …

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Pandemic to create millions of ‘new poor’ in East Asia: World Bank

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Up to 38 million people in East Asian and Pacific countries will be pushed into poverty by the coronavirus crisis, the World Bank has said. It will be the region’s …

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$4.2 Trillion Can Be Saved by Investing in More Resilient Infrastructure – World Bank

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The net benefit on average of investing in more resilient infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries would be $4.2 trillion with $4 in benefit for each $1 invested, according to …

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World Bank chief calls for transparency in China’s foreign lending

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Malpass says greater openness is crucial to avoid debt traps. FUKUOKA, Japan — The World Bank is “working hard” to ensure China improves transparency in lending to developing countries, the …

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