Economic Growth Must Benefits All
With global growth showing solid momentum, the challenge is to make it inclusive, World Bank Chief, Jim Yong Kim, has said last week. “The challenge now is to ensure that strong growth will...
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Saudi, UAE Pledge $100 Mln To Ivanka Trump Womens’ Fund
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged $100 million to a women's business fund supported by Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president who Monday wound up a visit to Riyadh. World Bank...
Developing Countries Including Ghana Risk Losing Credibility – World Bank President
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim has warned that developing countries including Ghana stand the risk of losing credibility if they keep competing with the private sector in developing businesses...
World Bank Supports Sub Saharan Africa With $57bn
Sub- Saharan countries facing threats of famine in the near future could heave a sigh of relief as the World Bank commits 1.6 billion dollars to avert the crisis. This comes on the back of a record...
Ivanka Forced To Defend Trump At Women’s Summit
Ivanka Trump, making her overseas debut as the US "First Daughter" at a women's summit in Berlin on Tuesday, was forced to defend her father's attitude towards women. Sitting on a G20 panel with...
Majority of Jobs Will Soon Be Lost To Automation
President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim has urged countries around the world to think of how they are going to compete in the future economy as two-thirds of jobs could be lost to automation very...
Bawumia, Ofori-Atta Left Out Osafo Marfo From Delegation To IMF
The Chairman of the Economic Management Team, Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta are leading a government delegation to the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings...
Bill Gates, Others Commit Money To Eliminate NTDs
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday committed $335 million dollars in grants over the next four years to support various Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) programmes in affected...
Bawumia, Ofori-Atta Head Ghana’s Team At IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
The Chairman of the Economic Management Team, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are leading a Government delegation to the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings to...
Bawumia,Ofori-Atta Head Ghana’s Team At IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
The Chairman of the Economic Management Team, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are leading a Government delegation to the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings to...
2017 World Bank/IMF Spring Meeting Kicks Off
The 2017 world Bank/IMF spring meetings are currently ongoing in the United States capital of Washington DC. The event scheduled from April 18 to April 23 is expected to host thousands of people from...
Veep, Finance Minister Attend IMF/World Bank Springs Meetings
The Chairman of the Economic Management Team, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are leading a government delegation to the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings...
Bawumia, Ofori-Atta Lead Government Delegation To IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
The Chairman of the Economic Management Team, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are leading a government delegation to the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings....
World Bank To Give Ghana $1.2bn, Africa $57bn
The World Bank Group, in the next three years, will extend a credit facility of $1.2billion to Ghana out of a chunk allocated to Sub-Saharan Africa by the Bretton Wood Institution. The facility,...
World Bank Pledges $57 Billion For Projects In Africa
The funds will go towards a vast number of projects over the next three fiscal years The World Bank has announced that it will commit a record $57 billion in financing for sub-Saharan Africa....
World Bank Announces $57 Bln In Financing For Africa
The World Bank on Sunday announced $57 billion in financing for sub-Saharan Africa over the next three fiscal years. Of that total, $45 billion will come from the International Development...
Global Growth Edges Up To 2.7 % Despite Weak Investment
Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate moderately to 2.7 percent in 2017 after a post-crisis low last year as obstacles to activity recede among emerging market and developing economy...
Declining Poverty Eradication Among Children Need Attention
A GNA feature by Priscilla S. Djentuh Accra Jan. 9, GNA - A report by the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS6) carried nationwide in 18,000 households in 1,200 enumeration areas from October 2012 to...
Declining Poverty Eradication Among Children Need Attention
A report by the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS6) carried nationwide in 18,000 households in 1,200 enumeration areas from October 2012 to October 2013, revealed that a quarter of Ghanaians are...
Report Says Natural Disaster Is A Major Cause Of Poverty
The impact of extreme natural disasters is equivalent to a global $ 520 billion loss in annual consump A new report from the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery...