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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group, which is part of the United Nations system.
The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty. However, according to its Articles of Agreement, all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of Capital investment.
World Bank Group
The World Bank is not to be confused with the World Bank Group, an extended family of five international organizations:
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BPP rates Nigeria high on Public Funds Expenditure
Business Day Online 13 Nov 2019
“In the same vein, as part of the procurement reform, Federal Government with support from the World Bank has approved six centres of excellence across the six geo-political zones to train and have graduates at the Master, Post Graduate Diploma and advanced certificates in ......
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WB ends funding to Uighur schools in China
The News International 12 Nov 2019
The World Bank announced on Monday it was ending a project to fund vocational schools in China following allegations of mistreatment of minority Muslim Uighurs ... "Specifically, the project component that involves the partner schools in Xinjiang is being closed," the World Bank said in a statement....
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BRICS strategic partnership for global stability, shared security and innovative growth
The Hindu 12 Nov 2019
In their statement following the meeting on the margins of the G20 Summit in Osaka last June, the BRICS leaders explicitly indicated their willingness to protect the pillars of the equitable multilateral trading system and the role of the World Trade Organization as its centre, and to advocate International Monetary Fund reform....
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Moneycontrol
08 Nov 2019
UP to play key role in realising PM Modi#39;s aim of making India $5 trillion ...
Moneycontrol
08 Nov 2019
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio says PM Modi among the best world leaders ... The chief minister said this while watching the presentation of suggestions invited from various reputed institutions including World Bank, Asian Development Bank among others here....
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A policy to better guide, coordinate sharing of geospatial data being finalised | 07 November 2019
Nation 07 Nov 2019
A revised draft of the proposed Seychelles Geospatial Data Sharing Policy was presented to a group of technicians, officers working at the Centre ... She pointed out that work on the policy started many years ago and the Centre for GIS is receiving expert support from the World Bank....
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MSME ministry allots Rs 200cr for tech centre in district
The Times of India 05 Nov 2019
The Union ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) has allotted Rs 200crore to set up a technology centre in the district ... Assistant director in-charge of the institute R Vijayakumar told TOI that the project is being executed under the scheme ‘Establishment of New technology Centres’ funded by the World Bank....
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New standards to help avoid hidden traps
Gulf Daily News 03 Nov 2019
Discussions during the 14th edition of the AAOIFI-World Bank Conference that began in Bahrain yesterday centred around how ......
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National Theatre debunks claims of purported takeover by the CBN
Business Day Online 01 Nov 2019
... Herbert Wigwe and other top government officials in the state,who paid an assessment visit to the National Theatre in Lagos, noted that in two years’ time under the watch of the bank, would be so transformed that it could be able to rival the best convention centres in the world....
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'Kolkata faces bigger flooding risk than Mumbai'
The Times of India 01 Nov 2019
KOLKATA ... The result was startling ... The model for 2100 and even 2050 has high degrees of variability ... Another study, which led to a World Bank report in 2012, had pegged the report at 12mm. Earlier this year, the Centre placed in Parliament a paper recording a 5mm rise at Diamond Harbour, the highest in India, from data culled between 1948 and 2014 ... ....
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Kolkata faces bigger flooding risk than Mumbai: Jadavpur University, IIT research
The Times of India 01 Nov 2019
KOLKATA ... The result was startling ... The model for 2100 and even 2050 has high degrees of variability ... Another study, which led to a World Bank report in 2012, had pegged the report at 12mm. Earlier this year, the Centre placed in Parliament a paper recording a 5mm rise at Diamond Harbour, the highest in India, from data culled between 1948 and 2014 ... ....
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Transparency issue: World Gold Council pitches for bullion banks to boost trade
Yahoo Daily News 31 Oct 2019
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House Democrats set to introduce first-of-its-kind climate refugee bill
Grist 26 Oct 2019
The World Bank estimated last year that climate change effects in just three regions ― sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America ― could force 143 million people to flee by the middle of the century ... The wave of foreign migrants seeking safety in the world’s largest economy has begun lapping on U.S....
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