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World Bank Announces New Steps to Add Billions in Financial …
The World Bank is taking bold new steps to increase its lending capacity, a major boost in firepower that will give millions of people a chance to escape poverty and improve their lives.
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6 days ago · With 189 member countries, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership fighting poverty worldwide through sustainable solutions. world-bank:content-type/event Korea Boosts Support to World Bank's IDA
World Bank Group’s $157 Billion Pandemic Surge Is Largest Crisis ...
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2021 - In response to COVID-19 severely damaging the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in developing countries, the World Bank Group deployed over $157 billion to fight the pandemic’s health, economic, and social impacts over the last 15 months (April 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021). This is the largest crisis ...
Risk of Global Recession in 2023 Rises Amid ... - World Bank Group
Sep 15, 2022 · As central banks across the world simultaneously hike interest rates in response to inflation, the world may be edging toward a global recession in 2023 and a string of financial crises in emerging market and developing economies that would do them lasting harm, according to a comprehensive new study by the World Bank.
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Climate change, poverty, and inequality are the defining issues of our age. The World Bank Group is the biggest multilateral funder of climate investments in developing countries. And we intend to go further in helping countries reduce poverty and rise to the challenges of climate change.
Global Economy Set for Weakest Half-Decade ... - World Bank Group
Jan 9, 2024 · As the world nears the midpoint of what was intended to be a transformative decade for development, the global economy is set to rack up a sorry record by the end of 2024—the slowest half-decade of GDP growth in 30 years, according to the World Bank’s January 2024 Global Economic Prospects report.
Global Growth Is Stabilizing for the First Time in Three Years
Jun 11, 2024 · The global economy is expected to stabilize for the first time in three years in 2024—but at a level that is weak by recent historical standards, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report.
Modest Growth Forecast for Economies in the Middle East and …
WASHINGTON, October 16, 2024 — Growth continues to be subdued in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) because of uncertainties heightened by the conflict in the region, says the World Bank in its latest semi-annual MENA Economic Update, entitled Growth in the Middle East and North Africa.