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India revs up plans to expand road network
Mumbai :: India | 1 day ago
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Manufacturers who set up shop in India in the 1990s often joke they didn't just have to build factories back then, but also roads because it was faster than waiting for the state to build them. Today, India has the world's second largest road network...
Tags: India, The World Bank, Mumbai, Highway, Business Finance, Types of roads
Guyana and World Bank to Launch Dialogue on Agricultural Risk Management and Insurance Strategy
The Government of Guyana, supported by the World Bank and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), launched today the first Symposium on Agricultural Risk and Insurance which seeks to develop a national agricultural risk management...
Tags: World Bank, Agricultural Risk Management, agriculture risk, The World Bank, risk management
Crisis puts 10 mn in poverty: WB
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 3 days ago
Credibility The global financial crisis will add 10.6 million people to the ranks of those in poverty in Europe and Central Asia by 2010, and an extra 23 million would be brought close to the limit, a World Bank report estimated on Monday. The World Bank has revised...
Tags: The World Bank, Europe, Central Asia, Bulgaria, Sofia, World Bank, Financial crises, Stock market crashes, Financial crisis of 2007￢ﾀﾓ2009, Poverty, Business Finance, Social Issues, Poverty by country, Remittance, Human migration
Donors pledge over $8 billion in aid to Vietnam next year
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 6 days ago
Credibility It suspended aid earlier this year for several months over a corruption scandal involving a Japanese-funded project. The World Bank offered $2.5 billion and the Asian Development Bank pledged $1.48 billion at the annual Consultative Group (CG) donors'...
Tags: Vietnam, The World Bank, climate change, Victoria Kwakwa, Hanoi, Environment, Business Finance, Foreign aid to Vietnam, Development aid, Development, International development, Aid, Official Development Assistance, Sustainability
Merger plans make WB cancel Sh300m grant
Nairobi :: Kenya | 8 days ago
Credibility The World Bank has now suspended a Sh300 million grant for the Magarini water project following plans by the government to merge several water companies by January. A senior official at the Malindi water and Sewerage Company (Mawasco) who confirmed the...
Tags: Mawasco, The World Bank, Magarini, Watamu Post Office, water companies, water supply, Kenya, Nairobi, Watamu, Athi-Galana-Sabaki River, Malindi, Malindi District, Districts of Kenya
World Bank to loan India $1 bln to clean Ganges
New Delhi :: India | 8 days ago
Credibility The World Bank has agreed to loan India $1 billion to help clean the Ganges river, sacred to hundred of millions of Hindus and also one of the most polluted rivers in the world. "The bank would be honored to help and support India's renewed endeavor to...
Tags: world bank, The World Bank, India, Robert Zoellick, clean ganga, president robert, loans india, bank president, New Delhi, Business Finance, Environment, Development, Geography of Uttar Pradesh, Rivers of India, International development, Rigvedic rivers, Ganges, Geography of Uttarakhand, World Bank Group, Politics, Pranab Mukherjee, International Monetary Fund, Economy of India, Pollution of the Ganges, Waste legislation, Kamal Nath, United Nations General Assembly observers, Yamuna, Pollution, Council on Foreign Relations, Public economics
Ibero-American Summit Backs World Bank’s Recapitalization
The Heads of State and Government of Ibero-America, gathered for the 19th Ibero-American Summit, expressed their support for the work carried out by the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Latin America and the...
Tags: World Bank, UN, IMF, Ibero-American Summit, Stock market crashes, The World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Financial crisis of 2007￢ﾀﾓ2009
World Bank bars Siemens for fraud in Russian project
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 9 days ago
Credibility World Bank bars Siemens for fraud in Russian project Washington, Dec 1 : The World Bank has banned Limited Liability Company Siemens, a Russian subsidiary of Siemens AG, from participation in the agency's projects for four years. The action was taken...
Tags: The World Bank, Siemens AG, Limited Liability Company Siemens, Russian, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Siemens mobile, Business Finance, Siemens
World Bank approves 81M euro loan for infrastructure projects in Bulgaria
Panagyurishte :: Bulgaria | 15 days ago
Credibility The loan envisaged to be used for infrastructural development in the municipalities of Rudozem , Madan , Panagyurishte and Tryavna . Specifically, funding would go to the construction of the Luda Yana dam in Panagyurishte, and the dams in Neikovtsi (Tryavna)...
Tags: The World Bank, euro loan, Tryavna, infrastructure projects, Bulgaria, Madan, Panagyurishte, Dam, 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria, Business Finance
World Bank approves Mexico loan
Mumbai :: India | 15 days ago
Credibility The loan will help to boost government efforts to stimulate the job market and support financial regulatory reform, the bank said. It added that Mexico had already made progress in implementing reforms. In September, the bank agreed to loan India $4.3bn...
Tags: The World Bank, Mexico, India, Mumbai, World Bank, Carbon finance, Business Finance, Banks
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